Hic neque tum solis rota cerni lumine largo altivolans poterat nec magni sidera mundi nec mare nec caelum nec denique terra neque aer nec similis nostris rebus res ulla videri, sed nova tempestas quaedam molesque coorta omnigenis e principiis, discordia quorum intervalla vias conexus pondera plagas concursus motus turbabat proelia miscens, propter dissimilis formas variasque figuras quod non omnia sic poterant coniuncta manere nec motus inter sese dare convenientis.
Then, in these circumstances, was not to be seen the suns wheel soaring aloft with generous light, nor the constellations of the great firmament, nor sea nor sky nor indeed earth nor air nor anything like to our things, but a sort of strange storm, all kinds of beginnings gathered together into a mass, while their discord, exciting war amongst them, made a confusion of intervals, courses, connexions, weights, blows, meetings, motions, because, on account of their different shapes and varying figures, not all when joined together could remain so or make the appropriate motions together.
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