Note 112 — BOOK III
John Clarke translation
This is the view expressed by Lucretius:
. . . ut in mare de terris venit umor aquai, in terras itidem manare ex aequore salso; percolatur enim virus, retroque remanat materies umoris et ad caput amnibus omnis confluit, inde super terras redit agmine dulci.
—De Rer. Nat. vi. 633.