ancipiti trepidant igitur terrore per urbis: tecta superne timent, metuunt inferne cavernas terrai ne dissoluat natura repente, neu distracta suum late dispandat hiatum idque suis confusa velit complere ruinis.
Therefore men shiver in their cities with a twofold terror: they fear the houses above, they dread the caverns below, lest the earths nature loosen all asunder in a moment, or torn asunder open abroad her own gaping jaws, and in confusion seek to gorge it with her own ruins.
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