--- Sallust, from On the Gods and the Cosmos, per Wikiquote/Sallustius, via Meghan Cox Gurdon's WSJ review of Natalie Lawrence's Enchanted Creatures: Our Monsters and Their Meanings (2024)
From Wikiquote/Sallustius, citing the Gilbert Murray translation, with the Thomas Taylor translation as an alternate
Now these things never happened, but always are. And mind sees all things at once, but reason (or speech) expresses some first and others after. Thus, as the myth is in accord with the cosmos, we for that reason keep a festival imitating the cosmos, for how could we attain higher order?
