Itaque, quae ex imbribus aqua colligitur, salubriores habet virtutes, quod eligitur ex omnibus fontibus levissimis subtilibusque tenuitatibus, deinde per aeris exercitationem percolata tempestatibus liquescendo pervenit ad terram.
Therefore rain-water has more wholesome qualities, because it comes from the lightest and most finely tenuous of all sources; then filtering through moving air, it liquefies in storms and so reaches the earth.
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