LIBER II · CAPUT 99
THE POWER OF THE MOON OVER THE LAND AND THE SEA
Latine · Mayhoff 1906
quo vera coniectatio existit, haut frustra spiritus sidus lunam existimari; hoc esse quod terras saturet accedensque corpora impleat, abscedens inaniat. ideo cum incremento eius augeri conchylia et maxime spiritum sentire quibus sanguis non sit, sed et sanguinem, hominum etiam, cum lumine eius augeri ac minui, frondes quoque et pabula- ut suo loco dicetursentire, in omnia eadem penetrante vi.
English · Bostock & Riley 1855–57
Hence we may certainly conjecture, that the moon is not unjustly regarded as the star of our life. This it is that replenishes the earth; when she approaches it, she fills all bodies, while, when she recedes, she empties them. From this cause it is that shell-fish grow with her increase, and that those animals which are without blood more particularly experience her influence; also, that the blood of man is increased or diminished in proportion to the quantity of her light; also that the leaves and vegetables generally, as I shall describe in the proper place, feel her influence, her power penetrating all things.