Ye make Neptune a god descended from Saturn; and he wields a trident that he may spear the fishes.  It is plain by his being thus provided that he is a sea-god.  Did not he himself with Apollo raise up walls for the Trojans?  How did that poor stone-mason become a god?  Did not he beget the cyclops-monster?  And was he himself when dead unable to live again, though his structure admitted of this?¹⁸⁴⁴

1844 We have changed marhus et into mortuus, and de suo into denuo.

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