nonne vides etiam terra quoque sulpur in ipsa gignier et taetro concrescere odore bitumen? denique ubi argenti venas aurique sequuntur, terrai penitus scrutantes abdita ferro, qualis expiret Scaptensula subter odores? quidve mali fit ut exhalent aurata metalla? quas hominum reddunt facies qualisque colores? nonne vides audisve perire in tempore parvo quam soleant et quam vitai copia desit, quos opere in tali cohibet vis magna necessis? hos igitur tellus omnis exaestuat aestus expiratque foras in apertum promptaque caeli.
Do you not see also that sulphur is produced in the earth itself, and asphalt grows together in lumps with its filthy smell? Again, when they follow veins  of silver and gold, rummaging with their tools the innermost secret places of the earth, what smells Scaptensula exhales from below! Or what mischief do gold mines breathe out, what do they make men look like, what colours! Do you not see or hear in how short a time they are accustomed to perish, how their vital force fails, who are held fast in such work as this by the great constraint of necessity? All these streams therefore the earth streams out and breathes forth into the open and ready space of the sky.
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