si non fecundas vertentes vomere glebas terraique solum subigentes cimus ad ortus, sponte sua nequeant liquidas existere in auras; et tamen interdum magno quaesita labore cum iam per terras frondent atque omnia florent, aut nimiis torret fervoribus aetherius sol aut subiti peremunt imbres gelidaeque pruinae, flabraque ventorum violento turbine vexant.
If by turning over the fruitful clods with the ploughshare and trenching the soil we do not bring them to birth, no growths could emerge into the lambent air of their own accord; and even so at times, these procured by great labour, when they are already covering the earth with leafage and are all in bloom, are either scorched up by the sun in heaven with too great heat, or cut off by sudden rains and chilly frost, and the blasts of wind batter them with violent storms.
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