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Seneca
Natural Questions Chapter 23
Chapter 99 of 201
Canonical reference 3.23
Latin
Latin Wikisource transcription (edition not asserted)
Haec est ergo aquarum diuisio, ut quibusdam uidetur: prosiliunt ex superioribus caelestes, quas nubila excutiunt; ex terrenis aliae sunt ut ita dicam supernatantes, quae in summa humo repunt, aliae abditae, quarum reddita est ratio.
French
Joseph Baillard · Œuvres complètes de Sénèque le Philosophe (1914)
Telle est la division des eaux, établie par quelques auteurs. Après cela ils appellent célestes les eaux que les nuages épanchent du haut des airs ; dans les eaux terrestres ils distinguent celles que je nommerai surnageantes et qui rampent à la surface du sol, puis celles qui se cachent sous terre, et dont nous avons rendu compte.
English
John Clarke · Physical Science in the Time of Nero (1910)
Such is the division of various kinds of water, as it presents itself to some minds. After that come waters of the sky, which the clouds pour down from the upper regions. Of terrestrial waters, they say, there are some that overflow, so to speak, and creep along the surface; others are concealed underground. I have already explained all these.