ergo operum fidens non protinus horrida campi iugera, sed caelo dextram metitur, humique pressus utroque genu collecto sanguine discum ipse super sese rotat atque in nubila condit.
Therefore confident in his workmanship, he measures to begin with, not the rough  acres of the flat, but his arm with the sky;  crouching on the ground with either knee, he collects his strength and whirls the disk above him and sends it to hide in the clouds.
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