III. ^ There was when nau^t was but Chaos and an

indistinguishable mixture of unordered elements still jumbled all together ; both Nature herself being wit- ness to it, and great men haying thought it most be sa
'* And as witness, I will bring forward for you the greatest of the great in wisdom. Homer hiinsrif, speaking about the original con-fusion:
** But may you ill beoome water sad earth *—
— ^meaning that thence all things hsTe had their genesis^ and that after the dissolution of their moist and earthy essence they are all restored again to their first nature — which is Chaos. " And Hesiod, in his Theogony, says :
" In traUi Chaos came into being the very finC'
'* And by ' came into being' he evidently means that
> ClemerU, Hom.^ VI. iiL ff. ; ed. A Schwegler (Stuttgut, 1847X pp. 168 ff. ; ed. P. de Lagarde (Leipdg, ISSSX pp. 74 £ See also Lobeck, AglaofkamuM^ pp. 475, 478 ; and mj Orylkmu^ pp. 156 and 162, 163. For the latest critical Tiew on the Apion- speechee, lee WaiU (H.X Di* PieudokUm^iUiium HamiU^m vndl Rskognitumen {TacU und UnUrtuehungmi^ Neue Folge, Bd. X. Hft IV.X pp. 251-256, ** Der Dialog dee Klemena mit Appion fiber die heidniBche Mytholpgie."
« /L, viL 99. Of. the Earth^uid. Water dCH^l 5.
» lisog,, 116.
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it was generated as are things generable, and not that it for ever was as are things ingenerabia
'* Orpheus also likens Chaos to an Egg in which was the con-fusion of the primordial elements.^
"This is what Hesiod supposes by Ohaos, what Orpheus calls an Egg — a thing generable, projected from the infinity of Matter (Hyl$), and brought into being as follows :