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of such a kind. For they say that he and his brother, having been born of fornication, were cast out in a wooded place and, having been found by a certain rustic woman, were raised. And it was a reproach to the Romans to be fed by others and to be called eaters of others' food. Romus, therefore, wishing to wipe away his own reproach, devised the Brumalia, having said that it was necessary for the king to feed his own senate during the winter season as honored men, when they are at rest from war, and for the senate in turn to feed the army. And he called the name of the feast from that man Brumalius, which in the Roman tongue is "to be fed by others." But after Romus, when Rome was administered by consuls and generals, of whom one was also Malius, Februarius, being a senator and envying Malius, prepared the senators to drive this man from the city. Therefore, when the Gauls attacked on the twentieth of the month of Sextilis by night and took the city and worked a great slaughter, the senators, having fled, summoned Malius again, who, having attacked with an army and taken the Gauls, killed them all, and having again taken control of Rome, he cut short the days of the month of Sextilis as being unfortunate for Rome, because its capture had happened in it. And having stripped Februarius of his possessions and having cast him dishonorably 7 from the city, he killed him, calling the month of Sextilis Februarius as being worthy of the name. And after the aforementioned Artaxerxes, his son Chos reigned, who also took Egypt and lost it, when Nectenabo was then reigning over it, who, having fled and through certain apparitions and Egyptian magic foretelling the future, becomes known to Philip and Olympias his wife, from whom he begot Alexander. And Philip reigned over Macedonia for 20 years, who, having subdued Thessaly, founded the city of Thessalonica. And after Philip, Alexander reigned over the Macedonians, at which time also Darius son of Arsames, reigning after Chos, ruled over all, whom Alexander, having subdued, took over his entire kingdom and the entire land of the Persians and Medes and Parthians and Babylonians and all the Indian parts. He, having also founded the great Alexandria in his own name, returned to Babylon, where he also died, being 32 years of age, having reigned for 12 years. It must be known that the scripture mentions two Lamechs, one from Cain, who also had murdered a man and a youth (for having killed the two brothers of the righteous Enoch, he took the wives of both), and another, the father of Noah, who was also later and descended from Seth. 8 Terah begot Abraham, Nahor and Haran the father of Lot, who also died before his father Terah; for when Abraham started a fire so as to burn up the idols of his father, Haran, having entered to take them out, died in the house before his father. From the race of Sidus son of Aegyptus, king of the Egyptians, was descended Melchi the father of Sedek, who, having become a priest of God and king of the Canaanites, was called Melchizedek patronymically, and having founded a city on Mount Zion, he named it Salem, which is city of peace, in which, having also reigned for 13 years, he died righteous and a virgin, as Josephus says. And the great Cyril also says. Melchizedek is said to be without genealogy because he was not at all from the seed of Abraham, nor was his genealogy recorded by Moses, but he was a Canaanite by race and sprang from the accursed seed. Whence he was not even deemed worthy of a genealogy; for it was not at all fitting to intertwine him who had attained the height of righteousness with the race of the height of unrighteousness. But Jerusalem, by the addition of the sacred syllable with Salem in conjunction, was eponymously named Jerusalem, partly because of the priestly service of Melchizedek, and partly because of the construction of the sacred temple; for it was formerly called Jebus. Lot, the nephew of Abraham, from his two daughters begot two sons, Moab and Amman, from whom are the Moabites and the Ammonites. 9 But Abraham from

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τοιαύτης. φασὶ γὰρ αὐτόν τε καὶ τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ ἐκ πορνείας γεννηθέντας ἐν ἀλσώδει τόπῳ ῥιφῆναι καὶ ὑπὸ ἀγροικικῆς τινὸς γυναικὸς εὑρεθέντας ἀνατραφῆναι. ὄνειδος δὲ ἦν Ῥωμαίοις τὸ ἐξ ἀλλοτρίων τρέφεσθαι καὶ ἀλλοτριοφάγους καλεῖσθαι. ὁ οὖν Ῥῶμος τὸ οἰκεῖον ὄνειδος ἐξαλεῖψαι βουλόμενος ἐπενόησε τὰ Βρουμάλια, εἰρηκὼς ἀναγκαῖον εἶναι τὸν βασιλέα τρέφειν τὴν οἰκείαν σύγκλητον ἐν τῷ καιρῷ τοῦ χειμῶνος ὡς ἐντίμους, ὅταν ἠρεμῶσιν ἐκ τοῦ πολέμου, τὴν δὲ σύγκλητον πάλιν τρέφειν τὸν στρατόν. ἐκάλεσε δὲ τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ ἀρίστου ἐξ ἐκείνου Βρουμάλιουμ, ὅ ἐστι Ῥωμαϊστὶ ἐξ ἀλλοτρίων τραφῆναι. Μετὰ δὲ Ῥῶμον ὑπὸ ὑπάτων καὶ στρατηγῶν τῆς Ῥώμης διοικουμένης, ὧν εἷς ἦν καὶ Μάλιος, ὁ Φεβρουάριος συγκλητικὸς ὢν καὶ τῷ Μαλίῳ φθονήσας παρεσκεύασε τοὺς συγκλητικοὺς τοῦτον τῆς πόλεως ἐκδιῶξαι. τῶν οὖν Γάλλων τῇ εἰκάδι τοῦ Σεξτιλίου μηνὸς νυκτὸς ἐπελθόντων καὶ τὴν πόλιν παραλαβόντων καὶ πολὺν φόνον ἐργασαμένων, οἱ συγκλητικοὶ φυγόντες τὸν Μάλιον πάλιν προσκαλοῦνται, ὃς μετὰ στρατοῦ ἐπελθὼν καὶ τοὺς Γάλλους παραλαβὼν πάντας ἀνεῖλε, καὶ κρατήσας αὖθις τῆς Ῥώμης ἐκολόβωσε τὰς ἡμέρας τοῦ Σεξτιλίου μηνὸς ὡς δυστυχοῦς τῇ Ῥώμῃ γενομένου διὰ τὸ τὴν παράληψιν αὐτῆς ἐν αὐτῷ γενέσθαι. τὸν δὲ Φεβρουάριον τῶν ὑπαρχόντων γυμνώσας καὶ ἀτί 7 μως τῆς πόλεως ἐκβαλὼν ἀνεῖλε, καλέσας τὸν Σεξτίλιον μῆνα Φεβρουάριον ὡς ἄξιον τοῦ ὀνόματος. Μετὰ δὲ τὸν εἰρημένον Ἀρταξέρξην ἐβασίλευσε Χῶος ὁ υἱὸς αὐτοῦ, ὃς καὶ τὴν Αἴγυπτον παρέλαβε καὶ ἀπώλεσε, βασιλεύοντος αὐτῆς τότε Νεκτεναβώ, ὃς φυγὼν καὶ διὰ φαντασιῶν τινῶν καὶ μαγειῶν Αἰγυπτιακῶν προλέγων τὰ μέλλοντα γνώριμος γίνεται Φιλίππῳ καὶ Ὀλυμπιάδι τῇ γυναικὶ αὐτοῦ, ἐξ ἧς ἔτεκε τὸν Ἀλέξανδρον. ὁ δὲ Φίλιππος ἐβασίλευσε τῆς Μακεδονίας ἔτη κʹ, ὃς τὴν Θεσσαλίαν ὑποτάξας τὴν Θεσσαλονίκην πόλιν ἔκτισεν. Μετὰ δὲ Φίλιππον ἐβασίλευσε Μακεδόνων Ἀλέξανδρος, ὅτε καὶ ∆αρεῖος ὁ Ἀρσάμου μετὰ Χῶον βασιλεύων κατεκυρίευσε πάντων, ὃν ὁ Ἀλέξανδρος χειρωσάμενος παρέλαβε πᾶσαν τὴν βασιλείαν αὐτοῦ καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν Περσῶν καὶ Μήδων καὶ Πάρθων καὶ Βαβυλωνίων χώραν καὶ τὰ Ἰνδικὰ πάντα μέρη. ὃς καὶ τὴν μεγάλην Ἀλεξάνδρειαν εἰς τὸ ἴδιον ὄνομα κτίσας εἰς Βαβυλῶνα ὑπέστρεψεν, ἐν ᾗ καὶ τελευτᾷ, ἐτῶν ὢν λβʹ, βασιλεύσας ἔτη ιβʹ. Ἰστέον ὅτι δύο Λάμεχ ἡ γραφὴ μνημονεύει, ἑνὸς μὲν τοῦ ἀπὸ Κάϊν, τοῦ καὶ πεφονευκότος ἄνδρα τε καὶ νεανίσκον (τοὺς γὰρ δύο ἀδελφοὺς τοῦ δικαίου Ἐνὼχ ἀνελὼν καὶ τῶν δύο τὰς γυναῖκας ἔλαβε), ἑτέρου δὲ τοῦ πατρὸς Νῶε, τοῦ καὶ μεταγενεστέρου καὶ ἀπὸ Σὴθ καταγομένου. 8 Ὁ Θάρρα ἐγέννησε τὸν Ἀβραάμ, τὸν Μαχωὲ καὶ τὸν Ἀρὰμτὸν πατέρα τοῦ Λώτ, ὃς καὶ ἀπέθανε πρὸ τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ Θάρρα· τοῦ γὰρ Ἀβραὰμ ἐμπρησμὸν ποιήσαντος ὥστε κατακαῦσαι τὰ εἴδωλα τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ, εἰσελθὼν Ἀρὰμ ἐξελέσθαι αὐτὰ ἀπέθανεν ἐν τῷ οἰκήματι ἐνώπιον τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ. Ἐκ τοῦ γένους Σίδου υἱοῦ Αἰγύπτου, βασιλέως Αἰγυπτίων, κατήχθη Μελχὶ ὁ πατὴρ τοῦ Σεδέκ, ὃς γενόμενος ἱερεὺς τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ βασιλεὺς τῶν Χαναναίων ἐπεκλήθη Μελχισεδὲκ πατρωνυμικῶς, καὶ κτίσας πόλιν ἐν τῷ ὄρει Σιὼν ἐπωνόμασεν αὐτὴν Σαλήμ, ὅ ἐστιν εἰρήνης πόλις, ἐν ᾗ καὶ βασιλεύσας ἔτη ιγʹ ἐτελεύτησε δίκαιος καὶ παρθένος, ὡς φησὶν Ἰώσηπος. λέγει δὲ καὶ ὁ μέγας Κύριλλος. ἀγενεαλόγητος εἴρηται Μελχισεδὲκ παρὰ τὸ μὴ ὑπάρχειν ἐκ τοῦ σπέρματος Ἀβραὰμ ὅλως, μηδὲ ὑπὸ Μωσέως γενεαλογηθῆναι, εἶναι δὲ Χαναναῖον τὸ γένος καὶ ἐκ τῆς ἐπαράτου σπορᾶς ὁρμώμενον. ὅθεν οὐδὲ γενεαλογίας ἠξίωται· οὐδὲ γὰρ πρεπωδέστατον ἦν τὸν τῆς ἄκρας δικαιοσύνης ἐπειλημμένον συμπλέκειν τῷ τῆς ἄκρας ἀδικίας γένει. ἡ δὲ Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἐκ προσθήκης τῆς τοῦ ἱεροῦ συλλαβῆς μετὰ τῆς Σαλὴμ κατὰ συνάφειαν ὠνομάσθη φερωνύμως Ἱερουσαλήμ, πῇ μὲν διὰ τὴν ἱερουργίαν τοῦ Μελχισεδέκ, πῇ δὲ διὰ τὴν τοῦ ἱεροῦ ναοῦ κατασκευήν· Ἰεβοὺς γὰρ ἐκαλεῖτο πρώην. Λὼτ ἀνεψιὸς τοῦ Ἀβραὰμ ἐκ τῶν δύο θυγατέρων αὐτοῦ ἐγέννησεν υἱοὺς δύο, Μώαβ καὶ τὸν Ἀμμάν, ἐξ ὧν Μωαβῖται καὶ Ἀμμανῖται. 9 Ὁ δὲ Ἀβραὰμ ἐκ