Nec divina satum genitalem numina cuiquam absterrent, pater a gnatis ne dulcibus umquam appelletur et ut sterili Venere exigat aevom; quod plerumque putant, et multo sanguine maesti conspergunt aras adolentque altaria donis, ut gravidas reddant uxores semine largo.
It is not the divine powers that drive away the genital force from a man, so that he be never called father by sweet children and that he pass his days in barren wedlock, as men for the most part think, sorrowfully sprinkling their altars with much blood and making them burn with offerings, that they may make their wives pregnant with abundant seed.
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