...can be so absurd as to believe that there are crops and trees on the other side of the earth, that hang downward and that men have their feet higher...you ask them how they defend these monstrosities, why things do not fall away from the earth on that side, they reply that the nature of things is such...

...scandalous; the immobility of the earth is thrice sacred." And Lactantius concluded, "It is impossible that men can be so absurd as to believe that the crops and trees on the other side of the earth hang downward and that men have their feet higher than their heads....

...Thus Lactantiua, referring to the heretical doctrine of the globular form of the eartli, remarks; " Is it possible that men can be so absurd as to believe that the crops and the trees 00 the other side of the earth hang downward, and that men have their feet higher than their heads...