Atlas enim formatur historia sustinens mundum, ideo quod is primum cursum solis et lunae siderumque omnium versationum rationes vigore animi sollertiaque curavit hominibus tradenda, eaque re a pictoribus et statuariis deformatur pro eo beneficio sustinens mundum, filiaeque eius Atlantides, quas nos vergilias, Graeci autem pliadas nominant, cum sideribus in mundo sunt dedicatae.
For, in history, Atlas is represented as sustaining the universe, because he was the first by his powerful intellect and skill to set forth to mankind the suns course and the revolutions of the moon and all the stars. And therefore because of this service he is represented by painters and statuaries as sustaining the world. His daughters, the Atlantides, whom we call Vergiliae and the Greeks Pleiades, are placed among the constellations in the universe.
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