Hunc inter mediumque orbem, quo sidera septem per bis sena volant contra nitentia signa, mixta ex diversis consurgunt viribus astra, hinc vicina gelu, caelique hinc proxima flammis; quae quia dissimilis, qua pugnat, temperat aer, frugiferum sub se reddunt mortalibus orbem.
Between this northern and the middle zone, wherein the seven planets fly through the twelve signs that resist their passage, there rise constellations which have part in opposite qualities, here close to heavens cold and here to its flames. Since these constellations are tempered by an atmosphere which is intermediate owing to the conflict within it of both extremes, they render fertile for mortals the lands beneath them.
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