[429] “Timæus.”
[430] “Our Place among Infinities,” p. 313.
[431] Ibid.
[432] Ibid., p. 314.
[433] The library of a relative of the writer contains a copy of a French edition of this unique work. The prophecies are given in the old French language, and are very difficult for the student of modern French to decipher. We give, therefore, an English version, which is said to be taken from a book in the possession of a gentleman in Somersetshire, England.
[434] See Rawlinson, vol. xvii., pp. 30-32, Revised edition.
[435] Jowett: Introduction to “Timæus,” “Dial. of Plato,” vol. i., p. 509.
[436] N. B.—He lived in the first century B. C.
[437] Stobæus: “Eclogues.”
[438] Kieser: “Archiv.,” vol. iv., p. 62. In fact, many of the old symbols were mere puns on names.