Quae enim relinquitur vis cantaminibus et veneficiis, si fatum rei cuiusque veluti violentissimus torrens neque retineri potest neque impelli? Igitur hac sententia sua Pudentilla non modo me magum, sed omnino esse magiam negavit.
What power can spells and potions still have, if the destiny of everything is like the most violent torrent, which one can neither hold back nor hurry forward? Thus by her very own statement Pudentilla not only denied that I was a magician, but that magic existed at all.
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