et simili ratione animalia suppa vagari contendunt neque posse e terris in loca caeli reccidere inferiora magis quam corpora nostra sponte sua possint in caeli templa volare; illi cum videant solem, nos sidera noctis cernere, et alternis nobiscum tempora caeli dividere et noctes parilis agitare diebus.
And likewise they maintain that the animals there move about head downwards, and cannot fall back from the earth into the space of sky any more than our bodies of themselves can fly into the regions of the sky; that when they see the sun, we behold the stars of night, and they share the seasons of the heavens with us alternately, and pass nights which are equal to our days.
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