et magis hoc lunam: quanto demissior eius cursus abest procul a caelo terrisque propinquat, tanto posse minus cum signis tendere cursum; flaccidiore etiam quanto iam turbine fertur inferior quam sol, tanto magis omnia signa hanc adipiscuntur circum praeterque feruntur.
And the moon, he says, still more than this: in proportion as her course is still lower, farther from the sky and nearer the earth, so much the less can she keep up with the signs; and in proportion as she is carried with fainter whirling movement, being lower than the sun, so much the sooner do the signs catch her up all around and pass by.
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