sic ubi se primum speculi proiecit imago, dum venit ad nostras acies, protrudit agitque aera qui inter se cumquest oculosque locatus, et facit ut prius hunc omnem sentire queamus quam speculum; sed ubi speculum quoque sensimus ipsum, continuo a nobis illuc quae fertur imago pervenit, et nostros oculos reiecta revisit, atque alium prae se propellens aera volvit, et facit ut prius hunc quam se videamus, eoque distare ab speculo tantum semota videtur.
So when the image of the mirror has first thrown itself forwards, while it is on the way to our eyes, it pushes and drives all the air that is between itself and our eyes, and makes us able to perceive all this before we perceive the mirror; but when we have perceived the mirror itself also, at once the image which is carried from us to the mirror reaches it, and being flung back, comes back to our eyes, rolling and propelling before it another air, and makes us see this before we see itself; and that is why it seems to be withdrawn so far off from the mirror.
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