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Azuran, and their generation became many in the land of both men and women. (6) In the midst of their times, therefore, Enoch was translated, being the seventh from Adam. (7) «And the sons of God, seeing the daughters of men, that they were beautiful, took for themselves wives from all whom they chose,» as Moses says. And they bore for themselves sons, the giants. (8) And the years from Adam until the sons of God desired the daughters of men, 2122. 9. In these times God sent a sphere of fire from heaven against the giants who were in the Celtic land, and it burned it and them. And having been carried into the Eridanus river, the sphere was extinguished. (10) The Greeks tell the story of this fire, and say that it was the son of Helios, whom they called Phaethon, having fallen from his chariot to the earth. And Ovid composed the story thus poetically, but Plutarch of Chaeronea spoke more truly. (11) The rest of the giants, seeing these struck by lightning, remained disobedient; and God, being angered, said: «My spirit shall not remain in them, because they are flesh.» (12) Peisander, a poet of the Greeks, named these dragon-footed, born from the earth, and having dared something against the highest divine powers, until the divine consumed them with various plagues. (13) But Servius said that while living in a deep plain they had a war with some who dwelt in high mountains, and crawling on their bellies were killed by those dwelling in the high places. 14. Then came Noah, a man beloved by God, and the flood occurred, as is recorded in the Books. Years from Adam until the flood, 2552. And in the 602nd year of his life Noah came out of the ark, and every soul of his family. And after the flood ceased the ark rested, as Pergamos wrote, on the mountains of Ararat of the province of Pisidia, whose metropolis is Apamea; but as Josephus and others, on the mountains of Ararat of Armenia between the Parthians and the Adiabenian Armenians. 15. And the generation of Noah procreated, and there came to be a multitude of men and women, and they were engaged in tower-building; who, also understanding the construction of the ark, were the first to make ships, and set them in the waters to swim. There were, therefore, from the flood until the tower-building, 370 years. 16. Shem, son of Noah, begot Arphaxad, a wise man, and Arphaxad begot Cainan, who after the flood composed the science of astronomy, having found the names of the stars engraved on a stone tablet, as Josephus wrote. For the descendants of Seth, being god-fearing men and having foreknown the future destruction or alteration of mankind, having made two pillars, one of stone, the other of brick, wrote on them all the celestial things set forth by Seth their forefather; reasoning that, if the world of men were to be altered by water, the stone pillar would remain and what was written on it, but if by fire, the brick pillar would remain. Which stone pillar remained after the flood on Mount Siris, as Josephus set forth. 17. The tribes of the sons of Noah were divided. And the tribe of Shem received by lot from Persia and Bactria to the Euphrates; and that of Ham from Rhinocorura of Egypt to a part of the west, and all of Libya, the Nile which is called Chrysorrhoas as far as Mauretania and the Herculean pillars and the great Adrian sea. And that of Japheth from Media towards the north as far as the Britannic isles and all the regions of the Pontus e* (on?) the Danube and the Tanais rivers, towards the Caucasian mountains and the Abasgians. * From the Tigris and to the Pontic Sea, the parts from * Rhodes and Cyprus and the a...... And the tribes were divided and remained 72 nations. 3 Exc. Salmas.: From the tribe of Shem the son of Noah came a certain Nebro, the first hunter, whom the Assyrians, having deified, placed among the

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Ἀζουρὰν, καὶ ἐγένετο αὐτῶν γενεὰ πολλὴ ἐν τῇ γῇ ἀνδρῶν τε καὶ γυναικῶν. (6) Ἐν τοῖς μέσοις οὖν αὐτῶν χρόνοις μετετέθη Ἐνὼχ, ἕβδομος ὢν ἀπὸ Ἀδάμ. (7) «Ἰδόντες δὲ οἱ υἱοὶ τοῦ Θεοῦ τὰς θυγατέρας τῶν ἀνθρώπων, ὅτι καλαί εἰσιν, ἔλαβον ἑαυτοῖς γυναῖκας ἀπὸ πασῶν, ὧν ἐξελέξαντο,» ὥς φησι Μώσης. Καὶ ἐγέννησαν ἑαυτοῖς υἱοὺς τοὺς γίγαντας. (8) Ἔτη δὲ ἀπὸ Ἀδὰμ ἕως τοῦ ἐπιθυμῆσαι τοὺς υἱοὺς τοῦ θεοῦ τὰς θυγατέρας τῶν ἀνθρώπων, βρκβʹ. 9. Ἐν τοῖς χρόνοις τούτοις σφαῖραν πυρὸς ἔπεμψεν ὁ θεὸς ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ κατὰ τῶν ὄντων ἐν τῇ Κελτικῇ χώρᾳ γιγάντων, καὶ ἔκαυσεν αὐτὴν καὶ αὐτούς. Καὶ εἰς τὸν Ἠριδανὸν ποταμὸν ἐνεχθεῖσα ἡ σφαῖρα ἐσβέσθη. (10) Τοῦτο ἱστοροῦσι τὸ πῦρ οἱ Ἕλληνες, καὶ λέγουσι τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ Ἡλίου εἶναι, ὃν Φαέθοντα εἶπον, πεπτωκότα ἐκ τοῦ ἅρματος εἰς τὴν γῆν. Καὶ ποιητικῶς μὲν οὕτω τὴν ἱστορίαν συνεγράψατο Ὀβίδιος, ἀληθέστερον δὲ εἶπεν ὁ Χαιρωνεὺς Πλούταρχος. (11) Τούτους ἰδόντες οἱ λοιποὶ γίγαντες κεραυνοβοληθέντας, ἔμειναν ἀπειθεῖς· καὶ ὀργισθεὶς ὁ Θεὸς εἶπεν· «Οὐ μὴ καταμείνῃ τὸ πνεῦμά μου ἐν αὐτοῖς διὰ τὸ εἶναι αὐτοὺς σάρκας.» (12) Τούτους Πείσανδρος, ποιητὴς Ἑλλήνων, ὠνόμασε δρακοντόποδας, ἐκ τῆς γῆς γεννηθέντας, καὶ τολμήσαντάς τινα κατὰ τῶν ὑψίστων θεϊκῶν δυνάμεων, ἕως τὸ θεῖον διαφόροις πληγαῖς ἠνάλωσεν. (13) Ὁ δὲ Σέρβιος εἶπεν ἐν βαθείᾳ πεδιάδι διάγοντας ἐσχηκέναι πόλεμον μετά τινων οἰκούντων ἐν ὑψηλοῖς ὄρεσι, καὶ ταῖς κοιλίαις συρομένους φονευθῆναι ὑπὸ τῶν ἐν τοῖς ὑψηλοῖς οἰκούντων. 14. Τότε ἐγένετο Νῶε, ἄνθρωπος ἀγαπώμενος ὑπὸ τοῦ Θεοῦ, καὶ ἐγένετο ὁ κατακλυσμὸς, καθὼς ἐν τοῖς Βιβλίοις φέρεται. Ἔτη ἀπὸ Ἀδὰμ ἕως τοῦ κατακλυσμοῦβφνβʹ. Ἐν δὲ τῷ χβʹ ἔτει τῆς ζωῆς αὐτοῦ ἐξῆλθε Νῶε ἀπὸ τῆς κιβωτοῦ, καὶ πᾶσα ψυχὴ τοῦ γένους αὐτοῦ. Καὶ μετὰ τὸ παύσασθαι τὸν κατακλυσμὸν ἐκάθισεν ἡ κιβωτὸς, ὡς μὲν Πέργαμος συνεγράψατο, ἐν τοῖς ὄρεσι Ἀραρὰτ τῆς Πισιδίας ἐπαρχίας, ἧς μητρόπολις ἡ Ἀπάμεια· ὡς δὲ Ἰώσηπος καὶ ἄλλοι, ἐν τοῖς ὄρεσι Ἀραρὰτ τῆς Ἀρμενίας μεταξὺ Πάρθων καὶ Ἀρμενίων Ἀδιαβηνῶν. 15. Ἡ δὲ γενεὰ τοῦ Νῶε ἐτεκνοποίησε, καὶ ἐγένετο πλῆθος ἀνδρῶν τε καὶ γυναικῶν, καὶ ἐποίουν πυργοποιΐαν· οἵτινες καὶ τὴν κατασκευὴν τῆς κιβωτοῦ ἐπιστάμενοι, πρῶτοι ἐποίησαν πλοῖα, καὶ ἐν τοῖς ὕδασι ἔθεντο αὐτὰ νήχεσθαι. Ἐγένετο οὖν ἀπὸ τοῦ κατακλυσμοῦ ἕως τῆς πυργοποιΐας ἔτη τοʹ. 16. Ἐγέννησε Σὴμ, υἱὸς Νῶε, τὸν Ἀρφαξὰδ, ἄνδρα σοφὸν, καὶ ὁ Ἀρφαξὰδ τὸν Καϊνὰν, ὅστις μετὰ τὸν κατακλυσμὸν συνεγράψατο τὴν ἀστρονομίαν, εὑρηκὼς τὰς τῶν ἄστρων ὀνομασίας ἐν πλακὶ λιθίνῃ ἐγγεγλυμμένας, ὡς Ἰώσηπος συνεγράψατο. Οἱ γὰρ τοῦ Σὴθ ἔγγονοι, ἄνδρες ὄντες θεοσεβεῖς καὶ προεγνωκότες τὴν τῶν ἀνθρώπων μέλλουσαν ἔσεσθαι φθορὰν ἤτοι ἐναλλαγὴν, ποιήσαντες στήλας βʹ, τὴν μὲν λιθίνην, ἑτέραν δὲ πλινθίνην, ἔγραψαν ἐν αὐτοῖς τὰ ἐκ τοῦ Σὴθ τοῦ πάππου αὐτῶν ἐκτεθέντα πάντα οὐράνια· λογισάμενοι ὅτι, εἰ μὲν δι' ὕδατος ἐναλλαγείη ὁ τῶν ἀνθρώπων κόσμος, ἡ λιθίνη στήλη μενεῖ καὶ τὰ ἐν αὐτῇ γεγραμμένα, εἰ δὲ διὰ πυρὸς, ἡ πλινθίνη στήλη μενεῖ. Ἥτις λιθίνη στήλη ἔμεινεν μετὰ τὸν κατακλυσμὸν εἰς τὸ Σίριδος ὄρος, ὡς Ἰώσηπος ἐξέθετο. 17. ∆ιεμερίσθησαν αἱ φυλαὶ τῶν υἱῶν Νῶε. Καὶ ἔλαχεν ἡ φυλὴ τοῦ Σὴμ ἀπὸ Περσίδος καὶ Βάκτρων ἕως Εὐφράτου· ἡ δὲ τοῦ Χὰμ ἀπὸ Ῥινοκορούρων τῆς Αἰγύπτου ἕως μέρους τῆς δύσεως, καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν Λιβύην, τὸν Νεῖλον τὸν λεγόμενον Χρυσορρόαν ἕως Μαυριτανίας καὶ τῶν Ἡρακλεωτικῶν στηλῶν καὶ τῆς μεγάλης θαλάσσης τῆς Ἀδριανῆς. Ἡ δὲ τοῦ Ἰαφὲθ ἀπὸ Μηδίας τὴν ἐπὶ τὸν ἄρκτον ἕως Βριτταννικῶν νήσων καὶ πάντα τὰ τοῦ πόντου ἑ* (ἐπὶ?) τὸν ∆άνουβιν καὶ τὸν Τάναϊν τοὺς ποταμοὺς, τὴν ἐπὶ Καυκάσια ὄρη καὶ Ἀβασγούς. * Ἀπὸ Τίγριδος καὶ ἕως τῆς Ποντικῆς θαλάσσης, τὰ ἀπὸ * τὸν Ῥόδον καὶ Κύπρον καὶ τὴν ἀ...... ∆ιεμερίσθησαν δὲ αἱ φυλαὶ καὶ ἔμειναν ἔθνη οβʹ. 3 Exc. Salmas.: Ἐκ τῆς φυλῆς Σὴμ τοῦ υἱοῦ Νῶε ἐγένετό τις Νεβρὼ κυνηγὸς πρῶτος, ὃν οἱ Ἀσσύριοι ἀποθεώσαντες ἔταξαν ἐν τοῖς