quin potius noscas rerum simulacra vagari multa modis multis nulla vi cassaque sensu? Sed ne forte putes ea demum sola vagari, quaecumque ab rebus rerum simulacra recedunt, sunt etiam quae sponte sua gignuntur et ipsa constituuntur in hoc caelo qui dicitur aer, quae multis formata modis sublime feruntur; ut nubes facile interdum concrescere in alto cernimus et mundi speciem violare serenam, aera mulcentes motu; nam saepe Gigantum ora volare videntur et umbram ducere late, interdum magni montes avolsaque saxa montibus anteire et solem succedere praeter, inde alios trahere atque inducere belua nimbos.
but that you should rather recognize that many similitudes are moving about in many ways, without any intrinsic quality and devoid of sensation. But that you may not think these images which pass off from things to be the only ones that move about, there are others which arise of themselves and are formed by themselves in this part of the sky called the air; which formed in many ways are carried aloft: as we sometimes see clouds quickly massing together on high and marring the serene face of the firmament, while they caress the air with their motion. For often giants countenances appear to fly over and to draw their shadow afar, sometimes great mountains and rocks torn from the mountains to go before and to pass by the sun, after them some monster pulling and dragging other clouds;
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