tumulum natura negavit immensis spatiis, nisi quem cava nubila torquens construxit turbo, impacta glomeratus harena, vel si, perfracto populatus carcere terras, Africus et, pontum spargens super aera, Caurus invasere truces capientem proelia campum inque vicem ingesto cumularunt pulvere montes.
Nowhere in that boundless tract does Nature suffer the level to rise, save where a whirlwind, thick with accumulated sand, and driving the hollow clouds along, has raised up a mound. Or sometimes the South-west wind breaks its prisond and devastates the earth; and then a blast from the North-west, scattering the sea over the sky, falls fiercely on the plain that is large enough for their battle; and the two winds, blowing against each other, raise mountains of heaped-up sand.
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