nam pro sancta deum tranquilla pectora pace, quae placidum degunt aevom vitamque serenam, quis regere immensi summam, quis habere profundi indu manu validas potis est moderanter habenas, quis pariter caelos omnis convertere et omnis ignibus aetheriis terras suffire feracis, omnibus inve locis esse omni tempore praesto, nubibus ut tenebras faciat caelique serena concutiat sonitu, tum fulmina mittat et aedis saepe suas disturbet et in deserta recedens saeviat exercens telum quod saepe nocentes praeterit exanimatque indignos inque merentes?   Multaque post mundi tempus genitale diemque primigenum maris et terrae solisque coortum addita corpora sunt extrinsecus, addita circum semina quae magnum iaculando contulit omne, unde mare et terrae possent augescere, et unde appareret spatium caeli domus altaque tecta tolleret a terris procul et consurgeret aer.
For I appeal to the holy hearts of the gods, which in tranquil peace pass untroubled days and a life serene: who is strong enough to rule the sum of the immeasurable, who to hold in hand and control the mighty bridle of the unfathomable? who to turn about all the heavens at one time and warm the fruitful worlds with ethereal fires, or to be present in all places and at all times, so as to make darkness with his clouds and to shake the serene sky with thunder, then to launch lightnings and often to shatter his own temples, and as he passes away into the wilds to cast that bolt in his wrath which often passes the guilty by and slays the innocent and undeserving? And since the time when the world came into being, since the first birthday of sea and earth and since the arising of the sun, many bodies have been added from without, many seeds have been added around, which the great all has brought together in its tossing; that from these sea and land might increase, and the habitation of the sky might amplify its expanse and uplift its dwellings high over the earth, and the air might rise up.
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