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1. in primis hoc volunt persuadere, non interire animas, sed ab aliis post mortem transire ad alios, atque hoc maxime ad virtutem excitari putant metu mortis neglecto.
2. multa praeterea de sideribus atque eorum motu, de mundi ac terrarum magnitudine, de rerum natura, de deorum immortalium vi ac potestate disputant et iuventuti tradunt.

Explanation:

1. In the first place they want to their leading tenets, that souls do not become extinct, but pass after death from one body to another, the fear of death, and they think that this is especially excited to valor, being disregarded.

2. youth many things respecting the stars and their motion, respecting the greatness of the world and of our earth, respecting the nature, the strength and the power and the majesty of the immortal gods.