Fragment 3
Original Latin
3 illi quoque versus Homerici huic sententiae suffragantur, quos Cicero in Latinum vertit:Tales sunt hominum mentes, quali pater ipseIuppiter auctiferas lustravit lumine terras.Augstin. de civ. dei 5.8
Musean translation
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3 Those lines of Homer, too, support this view; Cicero translated them into Latin:“Men’s minds take their temper from the light with which the FatherJupiter himself has bathed the fruitful earth.”Augstin. de civ. dei 5.8
Plain English translation
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3 These lines of Homer also support this view. Cicero translated them into Latin:“People's minds are like the light with which FatherJupiter himself has lit the crop-bearing earth.”Augstin. de civ. dei 5.8
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Fragment 3 is part of On Fate by Marcus Tullius Cicero. This page sets the Latin original beside 2 direct-source translations, so any line can be checked against the source. It is chapter 23 of 25 in the work, which is kept in the Roman tradition.
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