Note 111 — BOOK II
John Clarke translation
Similar views on thunder and lightning are expressed in the De Rerum Natura:
semina quod nubes ipsas permulta necessust ignis habere.—vi. 206. post ubi conminuit vis eius et impetus acer, tum perterricrepo sonitu dat scissa fragorem.—Ibid. 128. . . . notaeque gravis halantis sulpuris auras.—Ibid. 221.