Qua prius adgrediar quam de re fundere fata sanctius et multo certa ratione magis quam Pythia quae tripode a Phoebi lauroque profatur, multa tibi expediam doctis solacia dictis, religione refrenatus ne forte rearis terras et solem et caelum, mare sidera lunam, corpore divino debere aeterna manere, proptereaque putes ritu par esse Gigantum pendere eos poenas inmani pro scelere omnis qui ratione sua disturbent moenia mundi.
But before I begin to utter my oracles on this matter, more solemnly and with more certain reason than those which the Pythia declares from the tripod and laurel of Phoebus, I will expound to you many consolations in words of wisdom; lest by some chance bitted and bridled by superstition you think that earth and sun and sky, sea, stars, and moon are of divine body and must abide for ever; and should therefore believe it right that, like the Giants, all they should suffer punishment for a monstrous crime, who with their reasoning shake the walls of the world,
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