Astronomicon

Hesperus The personification of the Evening Star. had given light once Olympus In this context, Olympus refers to the sky or the heavens, which seem to "sink" below the horizon at sunset. was submerged.
And now the earth, not cast down into a bottomless depth,
But suspended in the middle, remains firm, so that everything
Might fall toward it, and the sky might go beneath it and rise again.
For I cannot believe that the rising stars are accidental births,
Nor can I believe the world is born so many times;
Cease thinking of constant births and daily destinies,
Since the face of the world remains the same with its constellations through the ages.
And that the Sun original: "Phoebus," a common poetic name for the sun god. travels from the same parts of heaven;
From there he winds his curves through the legs and feet
Of the second Centaur The constellation Centaurus. to climb the sky again;
He begins [to pass] the Greek ship The constellation Argo Navis, representing the ship of Jason and the Argonauts. by its highest stern-ornaments;
And the moon changes through as many lights and phases.
And nature follows the paths she herself has made,
Lest she wander in error like a novice novice: translated from "tyrocinio," referring to a beginner or a soldier in training as she is carried around.
The day, with its eternal light, shows the seasons;
Now to these regions of the globe, now to those, the same world [moves],
Always moving further from sunrise to sunrise,
Or from sunset to sunrise, the sky passes through with the sun.

Nor indeed should the nature of the hanging earth
Seem a wonder to you, since the world itself hangs
And sets its footprints on no foundation.
In part, this comes from the very motion and speed of its flight,
Since the Sun original: "Phoebus" travels suspended and bends back his course.