[282] “Inter omnes eos, non constat à quibus factæ sint, justissimo casu obliteratis tantæ vanitatis authoribus” (Plin).

[283]

עשהלך תבת עצי גפר קנים
תעשה את התבה וכפרתאתה
מבית ומחוץ בכפר וזה אשר
תעשה אתה שלש מאות אמה
ארך התבה חמשים אמה
רחבה ושלשים אמה קומתה
Gen. vi. 14.

[284] Exod. ii. 3.

[285] The Septuagint translators, not perceiving any difference, rendered all, similarly, by the word κιβωτός!

[286] As does also Tha, To, Ti, Tho, Thu, with their several commutables, derivatives, formatives, etc.

[287] And the Valley of To-phith, in which human victims were sacrificed, thus discloses, in the symbolic secret of its shape, that the propitiation of this instrument was the grand object of the sacrificers.

[288] Virgil.

[289] Gen. vi. 9.

[290] Gen. vi. 12.