id licet hinc cognoscere possis, quod simul ac primum nubes succedere soli coepere et radios inter quasi rumpere lucis, extemplo inferior pars horum disperit omnis, terraque inumbratur qua nimbi cumque feruntur; ut noscas splendore novo res semper egere, et primum iactum fulgoris quemque perire, nec ratione alia res posse in sole videri, perpetuo ni suppeditet lucis caput ipsum.
This you may recognize from what follows. As soon as clouds begin first to come up under the sun, and as it were to break in between the rays of light, at once the lower part of these rays is all lost, and the earth is in shadow wherever the clouds go; that you may see that things need light ever new, that one by one each cast of light is lost, that things cannot be seen in the sun in any other way unless the very source of light should bring up an unceasing supply.
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