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.”