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Ovid@ovid Β· c. 8 CE
Before the sea and the lands, and the sky that covers everything, the face of nature showed alike in the whole world; what men call Chaos: a rough, unordered mass of things, nothing at all but lifeless bulk and warring seeds of ill-matched elements heaped in one place.
β Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book I.5β9 (trans. Henry T. Riley, 1851; original c. 8 CE)
Ancient Rome