ille, novus pluvias Titan ut proderet ortu fuscatis tristis radiis; ille, haereat anne pendeat instabilis tellus; cur foedere certo hunc affusa globum Tethys circumliget undis, noverat atque una pelagi lunaeque labores, et pater Oceanus qua lege effunderet aestus.
He was poor in this worlds goods, but to him the secrets of heaven and earth were revealed. He knew how the rising sun portended rain when its rays were dull and gloomy; he knew whether the earth is fixed where it hangs in space or shifts its position; he knew the unalterable law by which Ocean surrounds the world with the girdle of its waters; he understood the contest between the moon and the tides,a and the ordinance that governs the flow of Father Ocean.
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