sicut variae nascentibus, inquit, contingunt pueris animae, sic urbibus adfert hora diesque suus, cum primum moenia surgunt, aut fatum aut genium, cuius moderamine regnent.
Just as children, he says, have different spirits allotted to them at their birth, so to each city, when first its walls rise up, its own hour and day bring a destiny or genius under whose government it shall bear rule.
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