And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Ver. 10. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel.] But not the end of it. Ambition is boundless, rides without reins, builds itself on the ruins of others, and cares not to swim to its design, though in a sea of blood. Crescit interea Roma Albae ruinis, begins one of Livy's Decades.