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who was descended from his race, he subjugated them, and reigned over them for 53 years, and in his own name he called them Persians, having taken away the kingdom and the name from the Assyrians. And he planted trees, and called them perseas; and not only there, but also in the Egyptian regions he planted the perseas in memory of himself. And he also taught the Persians the rite of the abominable and godless cup of Medusa; for which teaching he called their country that of the Medes. And this same Perseus, after reigning over the Persian land for many years, learning that Ionitae from Argos were living in the land of Syria, came to Syria to them at Mount Silpius, as to his own kinsmen; who, receiving him with all honor, did obeisance; and these same Argive Iopolitae, knowing that he also was descended from the race of the Argives, re 38 joicing, sang hymns to him. And when winter came, and the river near the city of the Ionitae, called the Drakon, but now the Orontes, flooded greatly, he asked the Ionitae to pray; and while they were praying and performing rites, a ball of lightning fire was brought down from heaven, which caused the winter to cease and the river's streams to be held back. And Perseus, marveling at what had happened, immediately kindled a fire from that fire, and kept it guarded with him; which fire he carried to the Persian regions to his own palace. And he taught them to honor that fire, which he told them he had seen brought down from heaven; which fire the Persians hold in honor to this day, as divine. And this same Perseus built a temple for the Ionitae, which he named of immortal fire. And likewise also in the Persian lands he built a temple of fire, appointing there devout men to serve it, whom he called magi. And these things Pausanias the most wise chronographer wrote. And after a time, king Cepheus came against him from Ethiopia, the father of Andromeda, and made war on him; and Cepheus from old age could not see. And Perseus, hearing that he was warring against him, being very angry, went out against him ca 39 rrying the head, and showed it to him. And Cepheus, not seeing, advanced against him on horseback; but Perseus, not knowing that he could not see, reasoned that the head of the Gorgon which he held was no longer working; and turning it towards himself, he looked at it; and being blinded he remained as if dead and was slain. And thereafter the son of Perseus and Andromeda reigned over the Persians, having been put forward by his own grandfather Cepheus, the king of Ethiopia; who gave the order, and the abominable head of the Gorgon was burned, and he departed to his own country. And thereafter the race of Perseus remained ruling the land of Babylonia. And in the aforementioned earlier times, Cadmus, the son of Agenor, from Phoenicia took possession of the land of Boeotia; whom his father sent in search and for the rescue of Europa, his sister. And this same Cadmus, learning that he was king of Crete, hastened to Boeotia; and having spent time in Boeotia he taught them the letters of the Phoenicians, which they did not know, and they honored him and made him king of Boeotia; for he was also handsome in appearance; who reigns over the Boeotians for 62 years. And he took a wife from there named Harmonia; from whom he had six daughters, Ino and Agaue and Semele and Eurynome and Kleantho and Eurydike; who as they grew up were called the 40 Cadmiades. And he also founded a great city in Boeotia, which he called Cadmeia after his own name. And this same Cadmus reigns there; and he recalled from exile Teiresias, a Boeotian who was a philosopher, the beast-slayer, being rich in both money and dignity and wisdom. who introduced the doctrine to the Greeks that all things move of their own accord and that the cosmos is without providence; and the priests conspired against him, and he was exiled to the

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τὸν ἐκ τοῦ γένους αὐτοῦ καταγόμενον, ὑπέταξεν αὐτούς, καὶ ἐβασίλευσεν αὐτῶν ἔτη νγʹ, καὶ ἐπ' ὀνόματι αὐτοῦ ἐκάλεσεν αὐτοὺς Πέρσας, ἀφελόμενος ἀπὸ Ἀσσυρίων τὴν βασιλείαν καὶ τὸ ὄνομα. καὶ ἐφύτευσε δένδρα, καὶ ἐκάλεσε περσέας· οὐ μόνον δὲ ἐκεῖ, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐν τοῖς Αἰγυπτίοις μέρεσιν ἐφύτευσε τὰς περσέας εἰς μνήμην ἑαυτοῦ. ἐδίδαξε δὲ καὶ τοὺς Πέρσας τὴν τελετὴν τοῦ μυσεροῦ καὶ ἀθέου σκύφους τῆς Μεδούσης· ὧντινων ἐκάλεσε τὴν χώραν Μήδων διὰ τὸ μάθημα. Ὁ δὲ αὐτὸς Περσεὺς μετὰ τὸ βασιλεῦσαι τῆς Περσικῆς χώρας ἔτη πολλά, μαθὼν ὅτι ἐν τῇ Συρίᾳ χώρᾳ διάγουσιν ἐκ τοῦ Ἄργους Ἰωνῖται, ἦλθεν εἰς τὴν Συρίαν πρὸς αὐτοὺς εἰς τὸ Σίλπιον ὄρος, ὡς πρὸς ἰδίους συγγενεῖς· οἵτινες δεξάμενοι αὐτὸν μετὰ πάσης τιμῆς προσεκύνησαν· γνόντες αὐτὸν οἱ αὐτοὶ Ἀργεῖοι Ἰωπολῖται ὅτι καὶ οὗτος ἐκ τοῦ γένους τῶν Ἀργείων κατάγεται, χα 38 ρέντες ἀνύμνουν αὐτόν. χειμῶνος δὲ γενομένου, καὶ πλημμυρήσαντος πολὺ τοῦ παρακειμένου ποταμοῦ τῇ Ἰωνιτῶν πόλει τοῦ λεγομένου ∆ράκοντος, νυνὶ δὲ Ὀρόντου, ᾔτησε τοὺς Ἰωνίτας εὔξασθαι· καὶ ἐν τῷ εὔχεσθαι αὐτοὺς καὶ μυσταγωγεῖν κατηνέχθη σφαῖρα πυρὸς κεραυνοῦ ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, ἥτις ἐποίησε παυθῆναι τὸν χειμῶνα καὶ τὰ τοῦ ποταμοῦ ἐπισχεθῆναι ῥεῖθρα. καὶ θαυμάσας ἐπὶ τῷ γεγονότι ὁ Περσεὺς ἐξ ἐκείνου τοῦ πυρὸς εὐθέως ἀνῆψε πῦρ, καὶ εἶχε φυλαττόμενον μεθ' ἑαυτοῦ· ὅπερ πῦρ ἐβάσταζεν ἐπὶ τὰ Περσικὰ μέρη εἰς τὰ ἴδια βασίλεια. καὶ ἐδίδαξεν αὐτοὺς τιμᾶν ἐκεῖνο τὸ πῦρ, ὅπερ ἔλεγεν αὐτοῖς ἑωρακέναι ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ κατενεχθέντα· ὅπερ πῦρ ἕως τοῦ παρόντος ἐν τιμῇ ἔχουσιν οἱ Πέρσαι, ὡς θεῖον. ὁ δὲ αὐτὸς Περσεὺς ἔκτισε τοῖς Ἰωνίταις ἱερόν, ὃ ἐπωνόμασε πυρὸς ἀθανάτου. ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ εἰς τὰ Περσικὰ ἔκτισεν ἱερὸν πυρός, καταστήσας ἐκεῖ διακονεῖν αὐτῷ εὐλαβεῖς ἄνδρας, οὕστινας ἐκάλεσε μάγους. ταῦτα δὲ Παυσανίας ὁ σοφώτατος χρονογράφος συνεγράψατο. Καὶ μετὰ καιρὸν ἐλθὼν ὁ Κηφεὺς βασιλεὺς κατ' αὐτοῦ ἐκ τῆς Αἰθιοπίας, ὁ πατὴρ τῆς Ἀνδρομέδας, ἐπολέμησεν αὐτῷ· ἦν δὲ ὁ Κηφεὺς ἐκ τοῦ γήρως μὴ βλέπων. καὶ ἀκούσας ὁ Περσεὺς ὅτι πολεμεῖ αὐτῷ, ὀργισθεὶς πάνυ, ἐξῆλθε κατ' αὐτοῦ βα 39 στάζων τὴν κάραν, καὶ ὑπέδειξεν αὐτῷ αὐτήν. καὶ ὁ Κηφεὺς μὴ βλέπων ἐπέβαινεν αὐτῷ ἔφιππος· ὁ δὲ Περσεὺς ἀγνοῶν ὅτι οὐ καθορᾷ, ἐλογίσατο μηκέτι ἐνεργεῖν τὴν κάραν ἧς κατεῖχε Γοργόνος· καὶ στρέψας αὐτὴν πρὸς ἑαυτὸν προσέσχεν αὐτῇ· καὶ τυφλωθεὶς ἔμεινεν ὡσεὶ νεκρὸς καὶ ἀνῃρέθη. καὶ λοιπὸν ἐβασίλευσε Περσῶν ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ Περσέως καὶ τῆς Ἀνδρομέδας, προβληθεὶς ἐκ τοῦ ἰδίου αὐτοῦ πάππου τοῦ Κηφέως, τοῦ βασιλέως τῆς Αἰθιοπίας· ὅστις ἐκέλευσε, καὶ ἐκαύθη ἡ μυσερὰ κεφαλὴ τῆς Γοργόνος, καὶ ἀνεχώρησεν ἐπὶ τὴν ἰδίαν αὐτοῦ χώραν. καὶ ἔμεινε λοιπὸν τὸ γένος τοῦ Περσέως βασιλεῦον τῆς Βαβυλωνίας χώρας. Ἐν δὲ τοῖς προειρημένοις ἀνωτέροις χρόνοις κατέλαβε τὴν Βοιωτίαν χώραν ἐκ τῆς Φοινίκης Κάδμος, ὁ Ἀγήνορος υἱός· ὅντινα ἔπεμψεν ὁ αὐτοῦ πατὴρ εἰς ἀναζήτησιν καὶ ἀνάῤῥυσιν τῆς Εὐρώπης, ἀδελφῆς αὐτοῦ. καὶ μαθὼν ὁ αὐτὸς Κάδμος ὅτι βασιλεύει τῆς Κρήτης, ἐπὶ τὴν Βοιωτίαν ὥρμησε· καὶ διατρίψας εἰς τὴν Βοιωτίαν ἐδίδαξεν αὐτοὺς τὰ Φοινίκων ἀγνοοῦντας γράμματα, καὶ ἐτίμουν αὐτὸν καὶ ἐποίησαν αὐτὸν βασιλέα τῆς Βοιωτίας· ἦν γὰρ καὶ εὐειδὴς τῇ θέᾳ· ὅστις βασιλεύει τῶν Βοιωτῶν ἔτη ξβʹ. καὶ ἠγάγετο γυναῖκα ἐκεῖθεν ὀνόματι Ἁρμονίαν· ἐξ ἧς ἔσχε θυγατέρας ἕξ, Ἰνὼ καὶ Ἀγαύην καὶ Σεμέλην καὶ Εὐρυνόμην καὶ Κλεανθὼ καὶ Εὐρυδίκην· αἵτινες ἐλέγοντο προϊοῦσαι αἱ 40 Καδμιάδες. κτίζει δὲ καὶ πόλιν ἐν τῇ Βοιωτίᾳ μεγάλην, ἥντινα ἐκάλεσεν εἰς ἴδιον ὄνομα Καδμείαν. καὶ βασιλεύει ὁ αὐτὸς Κάδμος ἐκεῖ· ἀνεκαλέσατο δὲ ἐκ τῆς ἐξορίας τὸν Τειρεσίαν, Βοιώτιον ὄντα φιλόσοφον, τὸν θηρολέτην, ὄντα πλούσιον καὶ χρήμασι καὶ ἀξίᾳ καὶ σοφίᾳ. ὅστις παρεισήγαγε δόγμα τοῖς Ἕλλησι τὸ αὐτομάτως φέρεσθαι τὰ πάντα καὶ ἀπρονόητον εἶναι τὸν κόσμον· καὶ οἱ ἱερεῖς συνεσκευάσαντο αὐτόν, καὶ ἐξωρίσθη εἰς τὸ