Even peasants wholly without knowledge of the quarters of the sky believe that oxen ought to face only in the direction of the sunrise. (Vitruvius)

Even peasants wholly without knowledge of the quarters of the sky believe that oxen ought to face only in the direction of the sunrise.

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