Homines enim neque longule dissita neque proxime assita possumus cernere, verum omnes quodam modo caecutimus: ac si ad oculos et obtutum istum terrenum redigas et hebetem, profecto verissime poeta egregius dixit velut nebulam nobis ob oculos offusam, nec cernere nos nisi intra lapidis iactum valere.
We humans cannot make out things placed far off or brought very close, but all of us are to some extent blind. When it comes down to the eyes and our dull, earth-bound vision, what the great poet said is surely very true'that a kind of fog is spread before our eyes, and we do not have the capacity to see beyond a stones throw.
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