Symeoni, 1559.
“Prima fuit rerum confusa sine ordine moles,
Vnaq. erat facies sydera, terra, fretum.”
i.e.
“First was there a confused mass of things without order,
And one appearance was stars, earth, sea.”
But Ovid’s lines are applied in a highly figurative sense, to show the many evils and disorders of injustice. A wild state where wrong triumphs and right is unknown,—that is the Chaos which Anulus sets forth in his “Picta Poesis” (p. 49); Without justice, confusion.
SINE IVSTITIA, CONFVSIO.