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Muspelli their banners raise,
“among the Genii? The land of the Giants is filled with uproar; the deities collect and assemble together. The dwarfs sigh and groan before the doors of their caverns. Oh! ye inhabitants of the mountains; can you say whether any thing will yet remain in existence?”
The description that Seneca the tragedian has given of the end of the world, is not very different from the preceding one; his words are—
Jam jam legibus obrutis
Mundo cum veniet dies
Autralis polus obruet
Quicquid per Lybiam jacet, &c.
Arctous polus obruet
Quicquid subjacet axibus.
Amissum trepidus polo
Titan excutiet diem.
Cæli regia concidens
Ortus atque obitus trahet
Atque omnes pariter Deos
Perdet mors aliqua, et Chaos
Et mors et fata novissima
In se constituet sibi
Quis mundum capiet locus?
Mundo cum veniet dies
Autralis polus obruet
Quicquid per Lybiam jacet, &c.
Arctous polus obruet
Quicquid subjacet axibus.
Amissum trepidus polo
Titan excutiet diem.
Cæli regia concidens
Ortus atque obitus trahet
Atque omnes pariter Deos
Perdet mors aliqua, et Chaos
Et mors et fata novissima
In se constituet sibi
Quis mundum capiet locus?
