ABSTRACT
Plato, Laws, 3, 677 9 A branch of one of your antediluvian families, fellows that the flood could
not wash away. William Congreve, Love for Love, V, ii (1695)
10 Theirs was the giant race before the flood. John Dryden, Epistles, ‘To Mr Congreve’ (1693)
11 Après nous le deluge [after us the flood]. Madame de Pompadour, quoted in Madame de Hausset, Mémoires
(1766) 12 If I were called in
To construct a religion I should make use of water.
