sed primum quicquid aquai tollitur in summaque fit ut nil umor abundet, partim quod validi verrentes aequora venti deminuunt radiisque retexens aetherius sol, partim quod subter per terras diditur omnis; percolatur enim virus retroque remanat materies umoris et ad caput amnibus omnis convenit, inde super terras fluit agmine dulci qua via secta semel liquido pede detulit undas.
But, bit by bit, whatever comes first of the water is taken off, and the result is that there is no superabundance of liquid in the sum total; partly because strong winds sweep the surface and diminish it, as does the sun on high unravelling it with his rays; partly because it is distributed abroad through all the earth underneath; for the pungency is strained off, and the substance of the water oozes back, and all meets at the sources of each river,whence it returns over the earth in a column of sweet water along the path which has once been cut for it in its liquid course.
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