LIBER II · CAPUT 44
THE ORIGIN OF WINDS
Latine · Mayhoff 1906
Montium vero flexus crebrique vertices et conflexa cubito aut confracta in umeros iuga, concavi vallium sinus, scindentes inaequalitate ideo resultantem aëra — quae causa etiam voces multis in locis reciprocas facit —, sine fine ventos generant.
English · Bostock & Riley 1855–57
The windings and the numerous peaks of mountains, their ridges, bent into angles or broken into defiles, with the hollow valleys, by their irregular forms, cleaving the air which rebounds from them (which is also the cause why voices are, in many cases, repeated several times in succession), give rise to winds.