tantum spirantes aequo certamine bellum magnis inter se de rebus cernere certant, cum semel interea fuerit superantior ignis et semel, ut fama est, umor regnarit in arvis.
So fierce is their warlike spirit, as in well-matched contest they strive to win a decision upon a mighty cause; although in the meanwhile fire won the mastery once, and once, as the story goes, water was king over the fields.
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