Unde tantum redisset subito mare, quo pridie refugisset, quaenam esset eiusdem elementi natura, modo discors, modo imperio temporum  obnoxia, mirabundi requirebant.
In wonder they asked one another whence so great a sea had suddenly returned, whither it had fled the day before, what was the nature of this same element which was at one moment at variance with the strict laws of time, and at another so subject to them.
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