Nunc age, quam celeri motu simulacra ferantur et quae mobilitas ollis tranantibus auras reddita sit, longo spatio ut brevis hora teratur, in quem quaeque locum diverso numine tendunt, suavidicis potius quam multis versibus edam; parvus ut est cycni melior canor, ille gruum quam clamor in aetheriis dispersus nubibus austri.
Now listen: how rapid is the motion which carries the images along, and what velocity has been given to them in swimming through the air, so that but a brief time is spent over a long space, to whatever part they tend with diverse inclination, this I will tell in verses few but sweet-voiced, as the short song of the swan is better than that honking of cranes, spread abroad in the skyey clouds of the south.
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