“For all things [came forth] from earth and all end in earth.”[8]
p. 477. 7. Of those who would derive the universals from [the] many and [the] numerable, the poet Homer declares that the universals have been composed of earth and water when he says:—
“Ocean source of Gods and mother Tethys.”[9]
and again:—
“But turn ye all to water and earth.”[10]
And Xenophanes the Colophonian seems to agree with him, for he says:—
“All we are sprung from earth and water.”[11]
But Euripides says from earth and aether, as he lets us see from his saying:—
“I sing aether and earth, mother of all.”[12]
But Empedocles from four, saying thus:—