fortunate, Coele-Syria, Commagene and all Phoenicia; and in his part is the river Euphrates. And from the tribe of Shem appeared a giant-born man, named Kronos by his father, as an eponym of the wandering star, who was first appointed to rule and be king of the Assyrians. And he had a wife Semiramis, also called Rhea, from whom he had a son, who was called Zeus, also Picus, having married his own sister Hera. Kronos also had another son, by name Aphron, to whom he allotted the land towards Libya; who married Astynome, begetting from her a daughter, whom he called Aphrodite. But Kronos, driven from his kingdom by his own son Zeus, left Zeus and Ninus, his sons, with their mother Rhea, to rule the Assyrians; and he himself, going down to the west, rules and reigns over all of Italy. Zeus therefore, withdrawing from the Assyrians, went to his father; and he yielded to him the rule over all of Italy, and having ruled for many years and having died, he is laid to rest in Crete. After Ninus, Thourras reigned over the Assyrians, whom they renamed Ares as he was most warlike and brave; whom the Assyrians renamed the god Baal and, having set up a statue, worship. After the death of Zeus, Faunus his16 son reigned, who was renamed Hermes; for he was very learned and mathematical; who also invented for men the making of gold from base metals. To Ham, the second son of Noah, fell these lands by name, Egypt, Ethiopia which looks towards the Indians, another Ethiopia, whence flows the river of the Ethiopians, Erythraea which looks towards the east, Thebaid, Libya which extends as far as Cyrene, Marmaris, Syrtis, Libya which extends from the river as far as the promontory of Syrtis, Numidia, Massyris, Mauritania which extends as far as the Pillars of Heracles opposite Gades. And it has in the parts opposite the north, along the sea, Cilicia, Pamphylia, Pisidia, Mysia, Lycaonia, Phrygia, Cabalia, Lycia, Caria, Lydia, another Mysia, the Troad, Aeolis, Bithynia, the ancient Phrygia. And it has also the islands Sardinia, Crete, Cyprus, and the river Geon, which is called the Nile. To Japheth, the third son of Noah, fell these lands by name, Media, Albania Amazonis, Armenia minor and major, Cappadocia, Paphlagonia, Galatia, Colchis, Bosphorus, Maeotis, Derbis, Sarmatis, Taurianis, Bastranis, Scythia, Thrace, Macedonia, Dalmatia, Molossis, Thessaly, Locris, Boeotia, Aetolia, Attica, Achaia, Pel17 lene, which is called the Peloponnesus, Arcadia, Epirus, Illyris, Lychnitis, Adriace, from which is the Adriatic sea. With it are also these islands: Britannia, Sicily, Euboea, Rhodes, Chios, Lesbos, Cythera, Zacynthus, Cephalonia, Ithaca, Corcyra and the Cyclades, and a certain part of Asia called Ionia. And there is a river in the same parts, the Tigris, which divides Media and Babylonia. And from the sons of Japheth, from Gomer, the Gomareis, who are now the Galatians, from Magog, the now Scythians, and from Madai, the Medes, from Javan, the Ionians and the other Greeks, from Tubal, the Thobeloi, who are now the Iberians, from Meshech, the Meschenoi, who are now the Cappadocians, whence also Mazaca is their metropolis, from Theras, the Thracians, from Tharros, the Tharseis, who are now the Cilicians, from whom also Tarsus, among the Cilicians, is a most notable city. And when the aforesaid division had been made, Shem, having settled where his father also did, divides the portion of his inheritance among his own children, but Canaan, son of Ham, seeing the land by Lebanon, that it was both good and fertile and greatly different from his own, camps there, having cut off this portion from the descendants of Shem, although his father and his brothers forbade him, and reminded him of the curses which his fa18 ther Noah pronounced against those who transgressed his decree. Thence all that land was called Canaanite. The three sons of Noah, therefore, having divided the world in three parts, as has been said, it is necessary now to go back to the

εὐδαίμων, Κοιλὴ Συρία, Κομμαγήνη καὶ Φοινίκη πᾶσα· ἔστι δὲ ἐν τῷ μέρει αὐτοῦ ποταμὸς ὁ Εὐφράτης. Ἐκ δὲ τῆς φυλῆς τοῦ Σὴμ ἀνεφάνη ἄνθρωπος γιγαντογενής, ὀνομασθεὶς ὑπὸ τοῦ πατρὸς Κρόνος εἰς ἐπώνυμον τοῦ πλανήτου ἀστέρος, ὃς πρῶτος κατέδειξεν ἄρχειν καὶ βασιλεύειν Ἀσσυρίων. ἔσχε δὲ γυναῖκα Σεμίραμιν τὴν καὶ Ῥέαν καλουμένην, ἐξ ἧς ἔσχε υἱόν, ὃς ἐπεκλήθη Ζεὺς ὁ καὶ Πῖκος, γήμας τὴν ἰδίαν ἀδελφὴν Ἥραν. ἔσχε δὲ Κρόνος καὶ ἕτερον υἱὸν ὀνόματι Ἄφρον, ᾧ ἀπεκλήρωσε τὴν πρὸς Λιβύην γῆν· ὃς ἔγημε τὴν Ἀστυνόμην, γεννήσας ἐξ αὐτῆς θυγατέρα, ἣν ἐκάλεσεν Ἀφροδίτην. ὁ δὲ Κρόνος ἐξωσθεὶς τῆς βασιλείας ὑπὸ τοῦ ἰδίου υἱοῦ ∆ιὸς κατέλιπε ∆ία καὶ Νῖνον, υἱοὺς αὐτοῦ, μετὰ τῆς μητρὸς αὐτῶν Ῥέας βασιλεύειν Ἀσσυρίων· αὐτὸς δὲ κατιὼν ἐν τῇ δύσει κρατεῖ καὶ βασιλεύει πάσης Ἰταλίας. Ζεὺς οὖν ὑποχωρήσας τῶν Ἀσσυρίων παρεγένετο πρὸς τὸν πατέρα· ὁ δὲ παραχωρεῖ αὐτῷ βασιλεύειν πάσης Ἰταλίας, καὶ κρατήσας πολλοῖς ἔτεσι καὶ τελευτήσας κατατίθεται ἐν Κρήτῃ. μετὰ δὲ Νῖνον ἐβασίλευσεν Ἀσσυρίων Θούρρας, ὃν μετωνόμασαν Ἄρεα ὡς πολεμικώτατον καὶ γενναῖον ὄντα· ὃν οἱ Ἀσσύριοι Βάαλ θεὸν μετωνόμασαν καὶ ἀναστηλώσαντες σέβονται. μετὰ δὲ τὴν τοῦ ∆ιὸς τελευτὴν Φαῦνος υἱὸς αὐ16 τοῦ ἐβασίλευσεν, ὃς μετωνομάσθη Ἑρμῆς· ἦν γὰρ λογιώτατος πάνυ καὶ μαθηματικός· ὅστις καὶ τὴν τοῦ χρυσοῦ ποίησιν ἐφεῦρεν ἐκ μετάλλων ἀνθρώποις. Τῷ δὲ Χὰμ τῷ δευτέρῳ υἱῷ τοῦ Νῶε ἔλαχον χῶραι κατ' ὄνομα αἵδε, Αἴγυπτος, Αἰθιοπία ἡ βλέπουσα κατὰ Ἰνδούς, ἑτέρα Αἰθιοπία, ὅθεν ἐκπορεύεται ὁ τῶν Αἰθιόπων ποταμός, Ἐρυθρὰ ἡ βλέπουσα κατὰ ἀνατολάς, Θηβαΐς, Λιβύη ἡ παρεκτείνουσα μέχρι Κυρήνης, Μαρμαρίς, Σύρτις, Λιβύη ἡ ἀπὸ ποταμέως παρεκτείνουσα μέχρις ἄκρας Σύρτεως, Νουμιδία, Μασσυρίς, Μαυριτανία ἡ παρεκτείνουσα μέχρις Ἡρακλεωτικῶν στηλῶν κατέναντι Γαδείρων. ἔχει δὲ ἐν τοῖς κατέναντι βορρᾶν τὰ παρὰ θάλασσαν, Κιλικίαν, Παμφυλίαν, Πισιδίαν, Μυσίαν, Λυκαονίαν, Φρυγίαν, Καβαλίαν, Λυκίαν, Καρίαν, Λυδίαν, Μυσίαν ἄλλην, Τρωάδα, Αἰολίδα, Βιθυνίαν, τὴν ἀρχαίαν Φρυγίαν. ἔχει δὲ καὶ νήσους Σαρδινίαν, Κρήτην, Κύπρον, καὶ ποταμὸν Γηὼν τὸν καλουμένον Νεῖλον. Τῷ δὲ Ἰάφεθ τῷ τρίτῳ υἱῷ τοῦ Νῶε ἔλαχον χῶραι κατ' ὄνομα αἵδε, Μηδία, Ἀλβανία Ἀμαζονίς, Ἀρμενία μικρά τε καὶ μεγάλη, Καππαδοκία, Παφλαγονία, Γαλατία, Κολχίς, Βοσπόρη, Μαιῶτις, ∆ερβίς, Σαρματίς, Ταυριανίς, Βαστρανίς, Σκυθία, Θρᾴκη, Μακεδονία, ∆αλματία, Μολοσσίς, Θεσσαλία, Λοκρίς, Βοιωτία, Αἰτωλία, Ἀττική, Ἀχαΐα, Πελ17 λήνη, ἡ καλουμένη Πελοπόννησος, Ἀρκαδία, Ἠπειρῶτις, Ἰλλυρίς, Λυχνῖτις, Ἀδριακή, ἀφ' ἧς τὸ πέλαγος τὸ Ἀδριακόν. ἐπὶ δὲ αὐτῷ καὶ νῆσοι αἵδε, Βρεττανία, Σικελία, Εὔβοια, Ῥόδος, Χίος, Λέσβος, Κύθηρα, Ζάκυνθος, Κεφαληνία, Ἰθάκη, Κέρκυρα καὶ αἱ Κυκλάδες, καὶ μέρος τι τῆς Ἀσίας ἡ καλουμένη Ἰωνία. ποταμὸς δ' ἔστιν ἐν τοῖς αὐτοῖς μέρεσι Τίγρις ὁ διορίζων μεταξὺ Μηδίας καὶ Βαβυλῶνος. ἐκ δὲ τῶν τοῦ Ἰάφεθ υἱῶν ἀπὸ μὲν τοῦ Γόμερ Γομαρεῖς οἱ νῦν Γαλάται, ἐκ δὲ τοῦ Μαγὼθ οἱ νῦν Σκύθαι, καὶ ἀπὸ Μάδου Μῆδοι, ἐκ δὲ Ἴωνος Ἴωνες καὶ οἱ λοιποὶ Ἕλληνες, ἐκ δὲ τοῦ Θόβελ Θοβηλοὶ οἱ νῦν Ἴβηρες, ἀπὸ δὲ Μεσχῶ Μεσχηνοὶ οἱ νῦν Καππάδοκες, διὸ καὶ Μάζακα ἡ παρ' αὐτοῖς μητρόπολις, ἀπὸ δὲ Θῆρα Θρᾷκες, ἀπὸ δὲ Θάρρου Θαρσεῖς οἱ νῦν Κίλικες, ἀφ' οὗ καὶ Ταρσὸς ἡ παρὰ Κίλιξι πόλις ἀξιολογωτάτη. Γενομένης δὲ τῆς δηλωθείσης διανεμήσεως, ὁ μὲν Σὴμ ἔνθα καὶ ὁ πατὴρ αὐτοῦ κατοικισθεὶς τὴν τῆς κληρονομίας αὐτοῦ μοῖραν εἰς τοὺς παῖδας κατατέμνει τοὺς ἑαυτοῦ, ὁ δὲ Χὰμ υἱὸς Χαναὰμ ἰδὼν τὴν πρὸς τῷ Λιβάνῳ γῆν, ὅτι ἀγαθή τέ ἐστι καὶ εὔφορος καὶ κατὰ πολὺ τῆς ἑαυτοῦ διαλλάττουσα, αὐτόθι κατασκηνοῖ, τῶν τοῦ Σὴμ ἐγγόνων ταύτην ἀποτεμόμενος τὴν μοῖραν, καίτοι τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτὸν καὶ τῶν ἀδελφῶν κωλυόντων, καὶ ὑπόμνησιν παρεχομένων ὧν ὁ πα18 τὴρ Νῶε τοῖς παραβαίνουσιν αὐτοῦ τὴν κρίσιν ἐπηράσατο. ἐντεῦθεν πᾶσα ἡ γῆ ἐκείνη Χαναναία προσηγορεύθη. Τῶν τριῶν τοίνυν υἱῶν τοῦ Νῶε τριχῇ, καθὼς εἴρηται, τὸν κόσμον διανειμαμένων, ἀναγκαῖόν ἐστι λοιπὸν ἀναδραμεῖν ἐπὶ τὸ