"Qua ratione inquis? Eadem qua conflagratio futura est ... Aqua et
ignes terrenis dominantur. Ex his ortus et ex his interitus est," etc.
There are also the Sybilline verses (quoted by Lactantias _de Ira Dei_,
cap. xxiii.):--
"[Greek: Kai pote tên orgên theon ouk eti praunonta,]
[Greek: All' exembrithonta, kai exoluonta te gennan]
[Greek: Anthrôpon, hapasan hup' emprêsmou perthonta.]"
Plato has a similar passage in his _Timæus_; and many others are quoted by
Matthew Pole in his _Synopsis Criticorum Script. Sacræ Interpretum_; on 2
Pet. iii. 6. 10.; to which I beg to refer MR. SANSOM; and also to Burnet's
_Sacred Theory of the Earth_, book iii. ch. 3.