C. touches on this point here merely to make the whole theory more

ridiculous, but it is possible that it may have been suggested by the pevparos poor of the original, which Kr, explains (p. 465) not of water, but of a sort of chaos out of which the elements were developed.
homines—consecuti: sce on Persaeus just above, and 11 62 n.
§ 40. Neptunum: see m1 71, 11 64; so Arist. Gen. An. 111 11 p. 762 4 yiverat Sev yh Kal ev vyp@ Ta (a Kai Ta hurd dit 7d ev yf pev Vdwp Urdpyew, ev & vdare rvevpa, ev S€ rovT@ travti Oeppdtnta Wuyxtkyv, GoTe Tpdrov Twa TavTa Wuyis etvae wAnpy. Pliny (V. W/Z. 11 4) speaks of the air as vitalem hune aera et per cuncta rerum meabilem totoque consertum, and 1x ¢. 6 he adduces various arguments to prove the existence of air in water, e.g. the spouting of whales (in aquas penetrare vitalem hune spiritum quis miretur, qui etiam