Sic igitur terrae concreto corpore pondus constitit, atque omnis mundi quasi limus in imum confluxit gravis et subsedit funditus ut faex; inde mare, inde aer, inde aether ignifer ipse corporibus liquidis sunt omnia pura relicta, et leviora aliis alia, et liquidissimus aether atque levissimus aerias super influit auras, nec liquidum corpus turbantibus aeris auris commiscet: sinit haec violentis omnia verti turbinibus, sinit incertis turbare procellis, ipse suos ignis certo fert impete labens.
In this way, therefore, the heavy earth became solid with compact body, and all the mud of creation, so to speak, flowed together by its weight and settled to the bottom like dregs; then sea, then air, then the fiery ether itself, being made of fluid particles, were all left pure, some lighter than others, and ether, lightest and most fluid, floats above the airy breezes, and does not mingle its fluid consistency with the stormy breezes of air: it leaves all things below to be turned upside down by violent tempests, leaves them to be disturbed with wayward storms, while itself bearing its own fires it glides with unchanging sweep.
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