"_After me the Deluge_" (Vol. iii., pp. 299. 397.).--The modern, whoever he
may be, can only lay claim to reviving this proverb of selfishness, which
was branded by Cicero long ago:
"Illa vox inhumana et scelerata ducitur, eorum, qui negant se recusare,
quò minùs, ipsis mortuis, terrarum omnium deflagratio consequatur, quod
vulgari quodam versu Græco [[Greek: Emou Thanontos gaia michthêtô
puri]] pronuntiari solet."
This passage occurs in his treatise _De Finibus_, III. xix., vol. xiv. p.
341. Valpy's edition, 1830.