Quam quidem ut a nobis ratio verissima longe reiciat, quamquam sunt a me multa profecta, multa tamen restant et sunt ornanda politis versibus: est ratio caeli speciesque tenenda, sunt tempestates et fulmina clara canenda, quid faciant et qua de causa cumque ferantur; ne trepides caeli divisis partibus amens, unde volans ignis pervenerit aut in utram se verterit hinc partim, quo pacto per loca saepta insinuarit, et hinc dominatus ut extulerit se.
In order that truest reasoning may thrust back such a life far from us, although many a word has been spoken by me, many still remain to be said and to be decked out with polished verse. The law and to avoid aspect of the sky have to be understood; storms and bright lightnings have to be sung, what they do, and by what cause they are set in motion at any things. time; that you may not, like one senseless, divide up the heavens into quarters, and tremble to see from which direction the flying fire has come, or to which of the two halves it has passed hence, how it has penetrated through walled places, and how after taking complete possession it has won its way out.
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