6.17

Deum

god

maxime

most of all

Mercurium

Mercury

colunt

they worship

Huius

of him

sunt

are

plurima

many

simulacra

statues

hunc

this

omnium

of all

inventorem

inventor

artium

arts

ferunt

they say

hunc

this

viarum

of roads

atque

and

itinerum

journeys

ducem

leader

hunc

this

ad

for

quaestus

acquisition

pecuniae

of money

mercaturasque

and trade

habere

to have

vim

power

maximam

greatest

arbitrantur

they think

Post

after

hunc

this

Apollinem

Apollo

et

and

Martem

Mars

et

and

Iovem

Jupiter

et

and

Minervam

Minerva

De

About

his

these

eandem

the same

fere

nearly

quam

as

reliquae

the remaining

gentes

tribes

habent

they have

opinionem

opinion

Apollinem

Apollo

morbos

illnesse

depellere

to ward off

Minervam

Minerva

operum

works

atque

and

artificiorum

crafts

initia

beginnings

tradere

to hand down

Iovem

Jupiter

imperium

command

caelestium

heavenly things

tenere

to hold

Martem

Mars

bella

wars

regere

to rule

Huic

to him

cum

when

proelio

in battle

dimicare

to fight

constituerunt

they decide

ea

those things

quae

which

bello

in war

ceperint

they have captured

plerumque

generally

devovent

they devote

cum

when

superaverunt

they have won

animalia

animals

capta

captured

immolant

they sacrifice

reliquasque

and the remaining

res

things

in

into

unum

one

locum

location

conferunt

they gather

Multis

in many

in

in

civitatibus

states

harum

of these

rerum

things

exstructos

piled up

tumulos

heaps

locis

locations

consecratis

consecrated

conspicari

to observe

licet

it is permitted

neque

neither

saepe

often

accidit

it happens

ut

that

neglecta

having neglected

quispiam

someone