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Of Earth and It's People

Earth is in the middle of the world. All the parts of the heavens are centered around it in equal intervals.

It has many names. It is called "earth", "terra", from the part of it that becomes like fine powder when rubbed, "rubbed" being in Latin "teritur"; It is called "humus" when it is inferior and "humida", humid earth, or when it is underwater; It is also called "tellus", when in it we "tollimus" fruits - we plant in it (literally "have it bear") fruits.

Other names include "Ops", for it uses it's "opis", "wealth", to support our crops; Finally, it is known as "arva" when "arandus", plugging, is done on it, yet again often together often with cultivating some kind of crop.

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