Quapropter bene cum superis de rebus habenda nobis est ratio, solis lunaeque meatus qua fiant ratione, et qua vi quaeque gerantur in terris, tum cum primis ratione sagaci unde anima atque animi constet natura videndum, et quae res nobis vigilantibus obvia mentes terrificet morbo adfectis somnoque sepultis, cernere uti videamur eos audireque coram, morte obita quorum tellus amplectitur ossa.
Therefore not only must we lay down right principles concerning things celestial, how the courses of sun and moon come about, and by what power all is done upon earth, but also most especially we must examine with keen-scented reasoning, of what the spirit is made and the nature of the mind, and what thing it is that meeting us when awake terrifies our minds whilst we are labouring under disease, or buried in sleep, so that we seem to see and to hear in very presence those who have encountered death, whose bones rest in earths embrace.
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