Note 620 — THE WISDOM OF THE ANCIENTS. A SERIES OF MYTHOLOGICAL FABLES.616
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This refers to the confused mixture of things, as sung by Virgil:—
“Namque canebat uti magnum per inane coacta Semina terrarumque animæque marisque fuissent; Et liquidi simul ignis; ut his exordia primis Omnia, et ipse tener mundi concreverit orbis.”— Ecl. vi. 81.