qualiter hiberni summis duo montibus amnes franguntur geminaque cadunt in plana ruina: contendisse putes uter arva arbustaque tollat altius aut superet pontes; et cum una receptas confundit iam vallis aquas, sibi quisque superbus ire cupit, pontoque negant descendere mixti.
As when two winter rivers break from mountaintops and fall with double ruin into the plains, you might think they were in competition which should lift land  and trees or overrun bridges in higher spate; and when one valley now receives both waters and is like to confound them, each proudly chooses to go his own way and they refuse to descend into the sea commingled.
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