tertia sors undas stravit fluctusque natantis, aequoraque effudit toto nascentia ponto, ut liquor exhalet tenuis atque evomat auras aeraque ex ipso ducentem semina pascat, ignem flatus alat vicinis subditus astris.
The third place was allotted to the expanse of the waters and floating billows, as the level sea at its birth was poured abroad to form the whole of ocean, to the end that water might breathe out and expel the subtle vapours and so feed air which draws the seeds of its being from water, whilst, set beneath the neighbouring stars, the breath of air might nourish the fire.
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