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Aeon the food from trees. from these were born those who were called Genos and Genea, and they inhabited Phoenicia; and when there were droughts, they stretched their hands to heaven towards the sun. For this, he says, they considered the only god, lord of heaven, calling him Beelsamen, which among the Phoenicians is lord of heaven, but Zeus among the Greeks.” 1.10.8 After this he blames the Greeks for an error, saying: “For not in vain have we distinguished these things in many ways, but with a view to the subsequent misinterpretations of the names in the accounts, which the Greeks, in their ignorance, have taken in another sense, being misled by the ambiguity of the translation.” 1.10.9 Next he says: “From the race of Aeon and Protogonus were born again mortal children, whose names were Phos and Pyr and Phlox. These, he says, discovered fire from the rubbing of sticks and taught its use. And these begat sons greater in size and superiority, whose names were given to the mountains which they mastered, so that from them were named Mount Casius and Libanus and Antilibanus and Brathy. From these, he says, were born Samemroumos, who is also Hypsouranios and Ousoos; and they took their names, he says, from their mothers, as the women of those times had intercourse without restraint with whomever they met.” 1.10.10 Then he says: “Hypsouranios inhabited Tyre and devised huts from reeds and rushes and papyrus, and he fell into strife with his brother Ousoos, who first invented a covering for the body from the skins of wild beasts which he was able to capture. And when there were violent rains and winds, the trees in Tyre were rubbed together and caught fire and burned down the wood there. And Ousoos, taking a tree and stripping off its branches, was the first who dared to venture upon the sea; and he consecrated two pillars to fire and wind, and worshipped them, and poured libations of blood 1.10.11 to them from the wild beasts he hunted. And when these died, he says that those who were left dedicated rods to them and worshipped the pillars and held festivals for them every year. And many ages afterwards, from the line of Hypsouranios were born Agreus and Halieus, the inventors of fishing and hunting, from whom hunters and fishermen were named; from whom were born two brothers, inventors of iron and the working of it, of whom the one, Chousor, practised rhetoric and incantations and divination; and he was Hephaestus, and he invented the hook and bait and fishing-line and raft, and was the first of all men to sail; wherefore 1.10.12 also after his death they worshipped him as a god. And he was also called Zeus Meilichios; and some say his brothers invented walls made of bricks. After these, from their race were born two youths, one of whom was called Technites, and the other Geïnos Autochthon. These devised how to mix straw with the brick-clay and to dry the bricks in the sun, and they also invented roofs. From these came others, of whom one was called Agros, and the other Agrou Heros or Agrotes, of whom there is a much-revered wooden statue and a shrine carried about by a yoke-team in Phoenicia; and among the Byblians he is named preeminently the greatest of the gods 1.10.13. And these devised adding courts to houses and enclosures and caves. From these came farmers and hunters. These are also called Aletae and Titans. From these were born Amynos and Magos, who established villages and flocks. From these were born Misor and Sydyk, that is, ‘Well-freed’ and ‘Just.’ These discovered the use of salt. 1.10.14 From Misor came Taautos, who discovered the writing of the first elements; whom the Egyptians called Thouth, the Alexandrians Thoth, and the Greeks Hermes.And from Sydyk the Dioscouri or Cabeiri or Corybantes or Samothracians. These, he says, first discovered a ship. From these were born others, who discovered both herbs and the cure for venomous bites and incantations. In their time there was a certain Elioun, called Hypsistos, and a female, named Berouth; and they dwelt about 1.10.15 Byblos. From them is born Epigeius Autochthon, whom they afterwards called Ouranos; so that from him they also name the element above us heaven, on account of the excellence of its beauty. And to him a sister is born from the aforesaid, who was also called Ge. And on account of the

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τὸν Αἰῶνα τὴν ἀπὸ δένδρων τροφήν. ἐκ τούτων τοὺς γενομένους κληθῆναι Γένος καὶ Γενεάν, καὶ οἰκῆσαι τὴν Φοινίκην· αὐχμῶν δὲ γενομένων τὰς χεῖρας εἰς οὐρανὸν ὀρέγειν πρὸς τὸν ἥλιον. τοῦτον γὰρ φησί θεὸν ἐνόμιζον μόνον οὐρανοῦ κύριον, Βεελσάμην καλοῦντες, ὅ ἐστι παρὰ Φοίνιξι κύριος οὐρανοῦ, Ζεὺς δὲ παρ' Ἕλλησιν.» 1.10.8 Μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα πλάνην Ἕλλησιν αἰτιᾶται λέγων· «Οὐ γὰρ ματαίως αὐτὰ πολλαχῶς διεστειλάμεθα, ἀλλὰ πρὸς τὰς αὖθις παρεκδοχὰς τῶν ἐν τοῖς πράγμασιν ὀνομάτων, ἅπερ οἱ Ἕλληνες ἀγνοήσαντες ἄλλως ἐξεδέξαντο, πλανηθέντες τῇ ἀμφιβολίᾳ τῆς μεταφράσεως.» 1.10.9 Ἑξῆς φησιν· «Ἀπὸ γένους Αἰῶνος καὶ Πρωτογόνου γεννηθῆναι αὖθις παῖδας θνητούς, οἷς εἶναι ὀνόματα Φῶς καὶ Πῦρ καὶ Φλόξ. οὗτοι φησίν εὗρον ἐκ παρατριβῆς ξύλων πῦρ καὶ τὴν χρῆσιν ἐδίδαξαν. υἱοὺς δὲ ἐγέννησαν οὗτοι μεγέθει τε καὶ ὑπεροχῇ κρείσσονας, ὧν τὰ ὀνόματα τοῖς ὄρεσιν ἐπετέθη ὧν ἐκράτησαν, ὡς ἐξ αὐτῶν κληθῆναι τὸ Κάσσιον καὶ τὸν Λίβανον καὶ τὸν Ἀντιλίβανον καὶ τὸ Βραθύ. ἐκ τούτων φησίν ἐγεννήθησαν Σαμημροῦμος, ὁ καὶ Ὑψουράνιος <καὶ Οὔσωος>· ἀπὸ μητέρων δὲ φησίν ἐχρημάτιζον, τῶν τότε γυναικῶν ἀνέδην μισγομένων οἷς ἐντύχοιεν.» 1.10.10 Εἶτά φησι· «Τὸν Ὑψουράνιον οἰκῆσαι Τύρον καλύβας τε ἐπινοῆσαι ἀπὸ καλάμων καὶ θρύων καὶ παπύρου, στασιάσαι δὲ πρὸς τὸν ἀδελφὸν Οὔσωον, ὃς σκέπην τῷ σώματι πρῶτος ἐκ δερμάτων ὧν ἴσχυσεν συλλαβεῖν θηρίων εὗρεν. ῥαγδαίων δὲ γενομένων ὄμβρων καὶ πνευμάτων παρατριβέντα τὰ ἐν τῇ Τύρῳ δένδρα πῦρ ἀνάψαι καὶ τὴν αὐτόθι ὕλην καταφλέξαι. δένδρου δὲ λαβόμενον τὸν Οὔσωον καὶ ἀποκλαδεύσαντα πρῶτον τολμῆσαι εἰς θάλατταν ἐμβῆναι· ἀνιερῶσαι δὲ δύο στήλας πυρὶ καὶ πνεύματι καὶ προσκυνῆσαι αἷμά τε σπέν1.10.11 δειν αὐταῖς ἐξ ὧν ἤγρευε θηρίων. τούτων δὲ τελευτησάντων τοὺς ἀπολειφθέντας φησὶ ῥάβδους αὐτοῖς ἀφιερῶσαι καὶ τὰς στήλας προσκυνεῖν καὶ τούτοις ἑορτὰς ἄγειν κατ' ἔτος. χρόνοις δὲ ὕστερον πολλοῖς ἀπὸ τῆς Ὑψουρανίου γενεᾶς γενέσθαι Ἀγρέα καὶ Ἁλιέα, τοὺς ἁλιείας καὶ ἄγρας εὑρετάς, ἐξ ὧν κληθῆναι ἀγρευτὰς καὶ ἁλιεῖς· ἐξ ὧν γενέσθαι δύο ἀδελφοὺς σιδήρου εὑρετὰς καὶ τῆς τούτου ἐργασίας, ὧν θάτερον τὸν Χουσὼρ λόγους ἀσκῆσαι καὶ ἐπῳδὰς καὶ μαντείας· εἶναι δὲ τοῦτον τὸν Ἥφαιστον, εὑρεῖν δὲ ἄγκιστρον καὶ δέλεαρ καὶ ὁρμιὰν καὶ σχεδίαν πρῶτόν τε πάντων ἀνθρώπων πλεῦσαι· διὸ 1.10.12 καὶ ὡς θεὸν αὐτὸν μετὰ θάνατον ἐσεβάσθησαν. καλεῖσθαι δὲ αὐτὸν καὶ ∆ία Μειλίχιον· οἱ δὲ τοὺς ἀδελφοὺς αὐτοῦ τοίχους φασὶν ἐπινοῆσαι ἐκ πλίνθων. μετὰ ταῦτα ἐκ τοῦ γένους τούτων γενέσθαι νεανίας δύο, καλεῖσθαι δὲ αὐτῶν τὸν μὲν Τεχνίτην, τὸν δὲ Γήϊνον Αὐτόχθονα. οὗτοι ἐπενόησαν τῷ πηλῷ τῆς πλίνθου συμμιγνύειν φορυτὸν καὶ τῷ ἡλίῳ αὐτὰς τερσαίνειν, ἀλλὰ καὶ στέγας ἐξεῦρον. ἀπὸ τούτων ἐγένοντο ἕτεροι, ὧν ὁ μὲν Ἀγρὸς ἐκαλεῖτο, ὁ δὲ Ἀγροῦ Ἥρως ἢ Ἀγρότης, οὗ καὶ ξόανον εἶναι μάλα σεβάσμιον καὶναὸν ζυγοφορούμενον ἐν Φοινίκῃ· παρὰ δὲ Βυβλίοις ἐξαιρέτως θεῶν 1.10.13 ὁ μέγιστος ὀνομάζεται. ἐπενόησαν δὲ οὗτοι αὐλὰς προστιθέναι τοῖς οἴκοις καὶ περιβόλους καὶ σπήλαια. ἐκ τούτων ἀγρόται καὶ κυνηγοί. οὗτοι δὲ καὶ Ἀλῆται καὶ Τιτᾶνες καλοῦνται. ἀπὸ τούτων γενέσθαι Ἄμυνον καὶ Μάγον, οἳ κατέδειξαν κώμας καὶ ποίμνας. ἀπὸ τούτων γενέσθαι Μισὼρ καὶ Συδύκ, τουτέστιν εὔλυτον καὶ δίκαιον. οὗτοι τὴν τοῦ ἁλὸς χρῆσιν εὗρον. 1.10.14 ἀπὸ Μισὼρ ὁ Τάαυτος, ὃς εὗρεν τὴν τῶν πρώτων στοιχείων γραφήν· ὃν Αἰγύπτιοι μὲν Θωύθ, Ἀλεξανδρεῖς δὲ Θώθ, Ἕλληνες δὲ Ἑρμῆν ἐκάλεσανἐκ δὲ Συδὺκ ∆ιόσκουροι ἢ Κάβειροι ἢ Κορύβαντες ἢ Σαμοθρᾷκες. οὗτοι φησί πρῶτοι πλοῖον εὗρον. ἐκ τούτων γεγόνασιν ἕτεροι, οἳ καὶ βοτάνας εὗρον καὶ τὴν τῶν δακετῶν ἴασιν καὶ ἐπῳδάς. κατὰ τούτους γίνεταί τις Ἐλιοῦμ, καλούμενος Ὕψιστος, καὶ θήλεια, λεγομένη Βηρούθ· οἳ καὶ κατῴκουν περὶ 1.10.15 Βύβλον. ἐξ ὧν γεννᾶται Ἐπίγειος Αὐτόχθων, ὃν ὕστερον ἐκάλεσαν Οὐρανόν· ὡς ἀπ' αὐτοῦ καὶ τὸ ὑπὲρ ἡμᾶς στοιχεῖον δι' ὑπερβολὴν τοῦ κάλλους ὀνομάζειν οὐρανόν. γεννᾶται δὲ τούτῳ ἀδελφὴ ἐκ τῶν προειρημένων, ἣ καὶ ἐκλήθη Γῆ. καὶ διὰ τὸ