Note 8 — A Review.

This Phrase or manner of Speech συνισάναι ἐκ vel ἐξ is not usual in Greek Authors; and upon a like Subject, Plato saith, τὸν δὲ κόσμον συνισάναι ἐκ πυρὸς ὕδατος, ἀέρος, γῆς, but he that should translate Plato, the World stands out of Fire, Water, &c. would be thought neither Grecian, nor Philosopher. The same Phrase is us’d in reciting Heraclitus his Opinion, τὰ πάντα ἐκ πυρὸς συνεσάναι, καὶ εἰς τοῦτο ἀναλιέως. And also in Thales his which is still nearer to the Subject, ἐκ τοῦ ὑδατός, φηοι, συνιζάναι πάντα, which Cicero renders, ex aquâ, dixit, constare omnia. So that it is easy to know the true Importance of this Phrase, and how it is ill render’d in the English, standing out of the Water.