seu deus instantis fati miseratus in orbem signa per affectus caelique incendia mittit; numquam futtilibus excanduit ignibus aether, squalidaque elusi deplorant arva coloni, et sterilis inter sulcos defessus arator ad iuga maerentis cogit frustrata iuvencos.
It may well be that by means of these moods and conflagrations of the sky Heaven in pity is sending upon earth tokens of impending doom. The fires wherewith the heavens blaze have never lacked significance, but farmers, cheated of their hopes, mourn over blighted fields, and amid barren furrows the weary ploughman vainly urges to the yoke his drooping team.
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