There is a book by a Jesuit, Père Labbe, entitled La Bibliothèque des Bibliothèques. It is a catalogue of all authors in all nations who have written catalogues of books.
Lucretius, lib. v. 93, 96, has the words,
——terras—
Una dies dabit exitio.
Ovid the lines,
Carmine sublimis tunc sunt peritura Lucreti
Exitio terras cum dabit una dies.
Albert in his Hebrew Dictionary, pretends to discover in each word, in its root, in its letters, and in the manner of pronouncing them, the reason of its signification. Loescher in his treatise De causis Linguæ Hebreæ, carries the matter even farther.