Perocché Giove co' fulmini, de' quali sono i maggiori auspìci, aveva atterrato o mandato sotterra entro le grotte de' monti i primi giganti, e con atterrargli aveva loro dato la buona fortuna di divenire signori de' fondi di quelle terre ove nascosti si ritruovaron fermati, e ne provennero signori nelle prime repubbliche;
For Jupiter with his thunderbolts, of which they are the greatest auspices, had knocked down or sent the first giants to earth in the caves of the mountains, and by knocking them down he had given them the good fortune of becoming lords of the lands where they found themselves hidden, and from which they became lords in the first republics;