Illud in his rebus longe fuge credere, Memmi, in medium summae quod dicunt omnia niti, atque ideo mundi naturam stare sine ullis ictibus externis neque quoquam posse resolvi summa atque ima, quod in medium sint omnia nixa' ipsum si quicquam posse in se sistere credis' et quae pondera sunt sub terris omnia sursum nitier in terraque retro requiescere posta, ut per aquas quae nunc rerum simulacra videmus.
One belief concerning these matters, Memmius, you must avoid and keep afar: that, as some say, all things press towards the centre of the whole, and that for this reason the nature of the world stands firm without any external blows, and the highest and lowest parts cannot be set loose in any direction, because all presses towards the centre'? if you believe that anything can stand upon itself' and that the weights that are beneath the earth all press upwards and come to rest on the earth upside down, like the images which we now see reflected by water.
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