Ergo si tantis intervallis nostra species potest id animadvertere, quid ita divinationibus splendoribusque astrorum iudicamus obscuritatis obici posse? Ergo potius ea ratio nobis constabit, quod, fervor quemadmodum omnes res evocat et ad se ducit, ut etiam fructus e terra surgentes in altitudinem per calorem videmus, non minus aquae vapores a fontibus ad nubes per arcus excitari, eadem ratione solis impetus vehemens radiis trigoni forma porrectis insequentes stellas ad se perducit et ante currentes veluti refrenando retinendoque non patitur progredi, sed ad se regredi, in alterius trigoni signum esse.
Therefore if our vision can perceive it at such great distances, why do we judge that obscurity may be set against the prophetic splendours of the stars? . Therefore the consideration rather commends itself to us that, just as heat evokes all things and draws them to itself, as also we see the crops rising on high from the earth because of the heat, and the watery exhalations raised from the springs to the clouds along the rainbow, so in the same way the mighty force of the sun extending its rays in the form of a triangle draws to itself the planets as they follow, and, as it were curbing and restraining those which precede, prevents their onward movement and compels them to return to it and to be in the sign of another trigon.
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