utque suos arcus per nubila circinat Iris, sic super incumbit signato culmine limes candidus et resupina facit mortalibus ora, dum nova per caecam mirantur lumina noctem inquiruntque sacras humano pectore causas: num se diductis conetur solvere moles segminibus, raraque labent compagine rimae admittantque novum laxato tegmine lumen;.
And just as the rainbow describes its arc through the clouds, even thus the white track marking the vault of heaven lies overhead; and it draws the gaze of mortals upwards, as they marvel at the strange glow through nights darkness and search, with mind of man, the cause of the divine. Perchance, they wonder, the firmament is seeking to split into separate segments; with the slackening of the framework cracks are opening and admit new light through a split in the ceiling:
final_alignments\Manilius_Astronomica_Book1.json