volat hora per orbem, atque, ubi se primis extollit Phoebus ab undis, illis sexta manet, quos tum premit aureus orbis, rursus ad hesperios sexta est, ubi cedit in umbras: nos primam ac summam sextam numeramus utramque et gelidum extremo lumen sentimus ab igni.
The mid-hour revolves about the world: when Phoebus rises from the surface of the ocean, it is the sixth hour for those who dwell immediately beneath the golden orb; and again, it is the sixth hour for the people of the west, when the Sun retires to the shadows: these two sixth hours we reckon as first and last of day respectively, and at such times we receive but chill rays from the Suns distant fires.
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