Compare the Grecian tradition of Inachus, son of Oceanus (vide Bryant, ii. 268), and with it, Hor., Od. 3, lib. ii.:
“Divesne, prisco et natus ab Inacho,
Nil interest, an pauper, et infimâ
De gente,” &c
[154] Vide his other epithets, infra, [p. 239]; also Rawlinson (Herod. i. p. 600), says that “upon one of the tablets in the British Museum there is a list of thirty-six synonyms indicating this god (Hoa). The greater part of them relate either to “the abyss” or to “knowledge.”
Compare this with the following verses from the “Oracula Sybillina,” i. ver. 145—
“Collige, Noë, tuas vires ...
... Si scieris me
Divinæ te nulla rei secreta latebunt.”
Now, without entering into the question of the authenticity of the Sybilline verses, I may at least quote them in evidence of the current tradition concerning Noah in the second century of the Christian era, supposing them to have been forged at that period.