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Isidorus Hispalensis
De natura rerum

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CAPUT XXV. De lapsu stellarum.

1 Falsa autem opinio et vulgaris est, nocte stellas cadere, cum sciamus ex aethere lapsos igniculos ire per coelum, portarique ventis, vagique lumen sideris imitari; stellas autem immobiles fixasque permanere in coelo.

2 Nam illud quod ait poeta:

Saepe etiam stellas vento impendente videbis
Praecipites coelo labi, noctisque per umbras
Flammarum longos a tergo albescere tractus.

Et iterum:

. . . . . Lapsa per altum
Aere disperso trahere candentia sulcos
Sidera, et summis etiam quae fixa tenentur
Astra polis.

Sed hi poetae voluntarie ad opinionem vulgi se contulerunt. Caeterum philosophi, quibus curae est mundi quaerere rationem, illa asserunt quae superius memorata sunt.




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