at cur dispositis vicibus consurgere signa et velut imperio praescriptos reddere cursus cernimus ac nullis properantibus ulla relinqui? cur eadem aestivas exornant sidera noctes semper et hibernas eadem, certamque figuram quisque dies reddit mundo certamque relinquit? iam tum, cum Graiae verterunt Pergama gentes, Arctos et Orion adversis frontibus ibant, haec contenta suos in vertice flectere gyros, ille ex diverso vertentem surgere contra obvius et toto semper decurrere mundo.
Then why do we see the stars arise in regular succession and duly perform as at the word of command their appointed courses, none hurrying ahead, none left behind? Why are the summer nights and the nights of winter ever made beautiful with the selfsame stars? Why does each day of the year bring back to the sky a fixed pattern and a fixed pattern leave at its departure? Already when the Greeks overthrew Troy the Bear and Orion moved with fronts opposed, she content to describe her gyrations at the pole, he rising to face her in opposition as she wheels on the other side and to traverse for ever the whole sky.
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