Bis patet in praeceps tantum, tenditque sub umbras,

Quantus ad aetherium coeli suspectus Olympum:

Bis patet in praeceps tantum, tenditque sub umbras, Quantus ad aetherium coeli suspectus Olympum:

for that is a thing the proportion of earth to heaven cannot bear: but that we should believe them there, indefinitely, where those men are on whom God inflicted that exemplary punishment.