Exorta est hominum....

... ast illo se tempore regia primum

Imperia ostendent terris quum fœdere facto

Tres justi reges, divisis partibus æquis,

Sceptra diu populis imponent sanctaque tradent

Jura viris.”...

Compare also the following verses (Orac. Sybil, i. 145) with the Vedic tradition (infra, [p. 238]) of the promise made to Satiavrata, and the Babylonian tradition respecting Hoa (infra):

“... Collige, Noë, tuas vires ...

... Si scieris me

Divinæ te nulla rei secreta latebunt.”