tunc aperit quis fulmen agat, quis sidera ducat spiritus, unde animi fluviis, quae pabula ventis, quo fonte immensum vivat mare, quae via solis praecipitet noctem, quae porrigat, imane tellus an media et rursus mundo succincta latenti.
Then he expounds who drives the thunderbolt, what spirit leads the stars, where rivers get their boldness, winds their food, from what fountain lives the vast sea, what path the sun takes to shorten night and what to draw it out, whether earth lies at the bottom or in the centre, girt around again by a world unseen.
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