nam modo, ceu longi fluitent de vertice crines, flamma comas imitata volat, tenuisque capillos diffusos radiis ardentibus explicat ignis; nunc prior haec facies dispersis crinibus exit, et glomus ardentis sequitur sub imagine barbae; interdum aequali laterum compagine ductus quadratamve trabem fingit teretemve columnam.
For sometimes, as though long tresses were flowing down from a persons head, the flame flies in the guise of hair, and the slender fire lets loose its streaming locks in brilliant rays; and now the tresses are scattered and this former appearance ends, succeeded by a tuft in the likeness of a fiery beard. Occasionally the outline of a comets sides fashions with even dimensions a rectangular beam or a rounded column.
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