THE WISDOM OF THE ANCIENTS. A SERIES OF MYTHOLOGICAL FABLES.
1
Cicero, Epistle to Atticus, 5.
2
Ovid, Metamorphoses, b. ii.
3
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.
4
This is always supposed to be the case in vision, the mathematical demonstrations in optics proceeding invariably upon the assumption of this phenomenon.