Luna potest solis radiis percussa nitere inque dies magis id lumen convertere nobis ad speciem, quantum solis secedit ab orbi, donique eum contra pleno bene lumine fulsit atque oriens obitus eius super edita vidit; inde minutatim retro quasi condere lumen debet item, quanto propius iam solis ad ignem labitur ex alia signorum parte per orbem, ut faciunt, lunam qui fingunt esse pilai consimilem cursusque viam sub sole tenere.
The moon may shine smitten by the suns rays, turning round that light day by day more towards our sight as she recedes from the suns orb, until right opposite to him she has shone with fullest light, and, as she rises, lifted on high, has seen his setting; then by small degrees she must as it were hide her light also behind her, the nearer she sun; now glides to the suns fire from the opposite region through the belt of signs'as they hold who suppose the moon to be like a ball and to keep the path of her course below the sun.
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