Crescere itemque dies licet et tabescere noctes, et minui luces, cum sumant augmina noctes, aut quia sol idem sub terras atque superne imparibus currens amfractibus aetheris oras partit et in partis non aequas dividit orbem, et quod ab alterutra detraxit parte, reponit eius in adversa tanto plus parte relatus, donec ad id signum caeli pervenit, ubi anni nodus nocturnas exaequat lucibus umbras.
Days may also increase and nights may wane, and days again may diminish when the nights take their increase, either because the same sun running above and beneath the earth divides the regions of ether in curves of unequal length, and separates his orbit into unequal parts, giving back as he comes round so much more to one of the two parts as he has taken from the opposite, until he arrives at the sign of the heavens where the node of the year makes the shades of night equal to the days.
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