Iamque rubrum tremulis iubar ignibus erigere alte cum coeptat natura supraque extollere montes, quos ibi tum supra sol montis esse videtur comminus ipse suo contingens fervidus igni, vix absunt nobis missus bis mille sagittae, vix etiam cursus quingentos saepe veruti; inter eos solemque iacent immania ponti aequora substrata aetheriis ingentibus oris, interiectaque sunt terrarum milia multa quae variae retinent gentes et saecla ferarum.
Again, when nature begins to uplift on high the suns beam red with flickering fires, and to raise it above the mountains, those mountains which the sun then seems to be above, quite close and touching them with his hot fire, are scarcely distant from us a couple of thousand bowshots, often even scarcely five hundred throws of a javelin; but between them and the sun lie vast stretches of sea below the wide regions of the sky, between them are thrown many thousands of lands inhabited by manifold nations and tribes of wild beasts.
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