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to their tribes and in their nations, as the scripture says. Together 72 nations. And the Cypriots are from the Kittim, and those in the north are of the same race as the Kittim, or rather, the Romans, and the nations of Greece, except for the Saites who later migrated there and inhabited the metropolis of Greece, Athens, and Thebes. For these are colonists of the Sidonians, from Cadmus son of Agenor. And the Chaldeans are colonists of the Tyrians, and any others who migrated to Greece. The nations of Japheth are scattered from Media as far as the western Ocean, facing north, as follows: Medes, Albanians, Garganoi, Erraioi, Armenians, Amazons, Kolloi, Kzenoi, Dennaginoi, Cappadocians, Paphlagonians, Tabiennoi, Chalybes, Sarmatians, Thracians, Mossonoi, Bastranoi, Sauromatae, Illyrians, Maiotai, 55 Scythians, Tauri, Macedonians, Hellenes, Istrians, Daunians, Ouennoi, Iapyges, Calabrians, Oppikoi, Latins and Romans, Gauls who are also Celts, Lugistinoi, Celtiberians, Iberians, Gauls, Acuitanoi, Illyrians, Basates, Kyrtanoi, Lusitanians, Vaccaei, Brittanic peoples, and those dwelling in the islands. Of these, those who know letters are these: Iberians, Latins who are also Romans, Spaniards, Hellenes, Medes, Armenians. And their borders in length are from Media to the western Ocean to the north; and in breadth from the Tanais river to Mastousia which is toward the sun. And their lands are Media, Albania, Armenia Minor and Major, Amazonis, Paphlagonia, Cappadocia, Galatia, Colchis, Bosporine, Maiotis, Derris, Sarmatia, Tauriane, Bastrane, Scythia, Thrace, Macedonia, Hellas, Thessaly, Boeotia, Locris, Aetolia, Achaia, Peloponnesus, Acarnania, Epirus, Illyris, Lychnitis, Adriake, from which the Adriatic sea was named, Calabria, Italy, Gaul, Thuskine, Lusitania, Celtica, Messalia, Celtogallia, Spanogallia, Iberia, Hispania Major. Here end the borders of Japheth as far as the Britannic islands, which face north. And he has the islands Britannia, Sicily, Euboea, Rhodes, Chios, Lesbos, Cythera, Zacynthus, Cephallenia, Ithaca and the Cyclades, and a certain part of Asia called Ionia; and the Tigris river, separating Media and Babylonia. In these, therefore, are the borders of Japheth fulfilled, because the scripture has said: “May God enlarge Japheth, being very great.” For he received all of Europe and no small part of greater Asia; wherefore it is also said “and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem.” And not only this, but also in an anagogical manner, that almost the entire portion of Japheth has been added by baptism and by faith in Christ our true God, which are the tents of Shem, since from him came both Abraham and Isaac and Jacob the patriarchs, from whom also the other genealogies are clearly traced down to Christ the leader. 56 But of Ham, very many nations until now are in apostasy in both the Indies and Ethiopias and Mauritanias, in which the Arabias and Idumeas act insolently against God and his saints, being subjected to the curse of Ham and Canaan. Wherefore scripture also declared Ham a servant-boy to Shem and Japheth, signifying him also through Canaan his son. Thus therefore, the whole inhabited world having been divided by Noah by divine command, as has been shown before, in the 2572nd year of the world, and the Ϡλʹ of the life of the righteous Noah, 204 years before the dispersion at the building of the tower, to his three sons, in the same way also in the confusion, being scattered, the 72 tribes and tongues took possession by lot, even if after these things at certain times some were resettled elsewhere by wars and captivities and by using greed and tyrannies against each other irrationally; concerning which things, one who reads first the divinely-inspired scriptures, and then also the Judaic and Hellenic and Egyptian or Chaldean histories, will know, even if it is not necessary in all things to follow the writings of the unbelievers, and especially in those things in which concerning

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ταῖς φυλαῖς αὐτῶν καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν αὐτῶν, ὥς φησιν ἡ γραφή. ὁμοῦ ἔθνη οβʹ. Εἰσὶ δὲ καὶ οἱ Κύπριοι ἐκ τῶν Κιτιαίων καὶ οἱ ἐν τῷ βορρᾷ ὁμόφυλοι τῶν αὐτῶν Κιτιαίων, εἴτ' οὖν Ῥωμαῖοι, καὶ τὰ ἔθνη τῆς Ἑλλάδος, πλὴν τῶν μετοικησάντων ὕστερον ἐκεῖ Σαϊτῶν καὶ κατοικησάντων τὴν τῆς Ἑλλάδος μητρόπολιν Ἀθήνας καὶ τὰς Θήβας. Σιδωνίων γὰρ οὗτοι ἄποικοι ἐκ Κάδμου τοῦ Ἀγήνορος. οἱ δὲ Χαλδαῖοι Τυρίων εἰσὶν ἄποικοι καὶ εἴ τινες ἄλλοι εἰς Ἑλλάδα μετῴκησαν. τὰ δὲ τοῦ Ἰάφεθ ἔθνη ἀπὸ Μηδείας ἕως τοῦ ἑσπερίου Ὠκεανοῦ κατέσπαρται βλέποντα πρὸς βορρᾶν οὕτως· Μῆδοι, Ἀλβανοί, Γαργανοί, Ἐρραῖοι, Ἀρμένιοι, Ἀμαζόνες, Κολλοί, Κζηνοί, ∆ενναγινοί, Καππάδοκες, Παφλαγόνες, Ταβίεννοι, Χάλυβες, Σαρ μάται, Θρᾷκες, Μοσσονοί, Βαστρανοί, Σαυρομάται, Ἰλλυριοί, Μαιῶται, 55 Σκύθαι, Ταῦροι, Μακεδόνες, Ἕλληνες, Ἴστριοι, ∆αυνεῖς, Οὐεννοί, Ἰάπυγες, Καλαβροί, Ὀππικοί, Λατῖνοι καὶ Ῥωμαῖοι, Γάλλοι οἱ καὶ Κελταῖοι, Λυγιστῖνοι, Κελτίβηρες, Ἴβηρες, Γάλλοι, Ἀκυτιανοί, Ἰλλυρικοί, Βάσατες, Κυρτανοί, Λυσιτανοί, Οὐακκαῖοι, Βρεττανικοί, οἱ δὲ ἐν ταῖς νήσοις οἰκοῦντες. ἐξ αὐτῶν εἰδότες γράμματά εἰσιν οὗτοι· Ἴβηρες, Λατῖνοι οἱ καὶ Ῥωμαῖοι, Ἱσπάνοι, Ἕλληνες, Μῆδοι, Ἀρμένιοι. ἔστι δὲ κατὰ μῆκος ταὅρια αὐτῶν ἀπὸ Μηδείας ἕως δυτικοῦ Ὠκεανοῦ τὰ πρὸς βορρᾶν· εὖρος δὲ ἀπὸ Τανάιδος ποταμοῦ ἕως Μαστουσίας τῆς κατὰ ἥλιον. Αἱ χῶραι δὲ αὐτῶν Μηδεία, Ἀλβανία, Ἀρμενία μικρὰ καὶ μεγάλη, Ἀμαζονίς, Παφλαγονία, Καππαδοκία, Γαλατία, Κολχίς, Βοσπορινή, Μαιῶτις, ∆ερρίς, Σαρματία, Ταυριανή, Βαστρανή, Σκυθία, Θρᾴκη, Μα κεδονία, Ἑλλάς, Θεσσαλία, Βοιωτίς, Λοκρία, Αἰτωλία, Ἀχαΐα, Πελοπόννησος, Ἀκαρνία, Ἠπειρῶτις, Ἰλλυρίς, Λυχνῖτις, Ἀδριακή, ἀφ' ἧς τοἈδριακὸν πέλαγος ἐκλήθη, Καλαβρία, Ἰταλία, Γαλλία, Θουσκινή, Λυσιτανία, Κελτική, Μεσσαλία, Κελτογαλλία, Σπανογαλλία, Ἰβηρία, Ἱσπανία ἡ μεγάλη. ἐνταῦθα καταλήγει τὰ ὅρια τοῦ Ἰάφεθ ἕως Βρεττανικῶν νήσων τὰ πρὸς βορρᾶν βλέποντα. ἔχει δὲ νήσους Βρεττανίαν, Σικελίαν, Εὔβοιαν, Ῥόδον, Χίον, Λέσβον, Κύθηραν, Ζάκυνθον, Κεφαλληνίαν, Ἰθάκην καὶ τὰς Κυκλάδας, καὶ μέρος τι τῆς Ἀσίας τὴν Ἰωνίαν καλουμένην· ποταμὸν δὲ Τίγριν διορίζοντα μεταξὺ Μηδίας καὶ Βαβυλωνίας. ἐν τούτοις οὖν πληροῦται τὰ τοῦ Ἰάφεθ ὅρια διὰ τὸ εἰρηκέναι τὴν γραφήν· «πλατύναι ὁ θεὸς τῷ Ἰάφεθ πλεῖστα ὄντα.» τὴν πᾶσαν γὰρ Εὐρώπην καὶ μέρος οὐ μι κρὸν τῆς μεγάλης Ἀσίας ἀπηνέγκατο· διὸ καὶ εἴρηται «καὶ κατασκηνώσει ἐν τοῖς σκηνώμασι τοῦ Σήμ.» οὐ μόνον δέ, ἀλλὰ καὶ κατὰ ἀναγωγικὸν τρό πον, ὅτι πᾶσα ἡ μερὶς τοῦ Ἰάφεθ σχεδὸν τῷ βαπτίσματι καὶ τῇ εἰς Χριστὸν τὸν ἀληθινὸν θεὸν ἡμῶν πίστει προσετέθη, ἅτινά ἐστι σκηνώματα τοῦ Σήμ, ἐπεὶ καὶ ἐξ αὐτοῦ καὶ Ἀβραὰμ καὶ Ἰσαὰκ καὶ Ἰακὼβ οἱ πατριάρχαιἐξ ὧν καὶ αἱ λοιπαὶ γενεαρχίαι ἕως Χριστοῦ ἡγουμένου σαφῶς γενεαλο 56 γοῦνται. τοῦ δὲ Χὰμ πλεῖστα μέχρι καὶ νῦν ἔθνη ἐστὶν ἐν ἀποστασίᾳ κατά τε τὰς Ἰνδίας καὶ Αἰθιοπίας καὶ Μαυριτανίας, ἐν οἷς Ἀραβίαι καὶ Ἰδουμαῖαι κατὰ θεοῦ καὶ τῶν ἁγίων αὐτοῦ θρασύνονται τῇ τοῦ Χὰμ καὶ Χα ναὰν κατάρᾳ καθυποβεβλημένοι. διὸ καὶ παῖδα οἰκέτην τὸν Χὰμ τοῦ Σὴμ καὶ τοῦ Ἰάφεθ ἡ γραφὴ ἀπεφήνατο, διὰ τοῦ Χαναὰν τοῦ υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ καὶ αὐτὸν σημαίνουσα. Οὕτως οὖν ὑπὸ τοῦ Νῶε τῆς ὅλης οἰκουμένης διαμερισθείσης θείῳ προστάγματι, ὡς προδεδήλωται, τῷ βφοβʹ ἔτει τοῦ κόσμου, Ϡλʹ δὲ τῆς τοῦ δικαίου Νῶε ζωῆς πρὸ σδʹ ἐτῶν τῆς κατὰ τὴν πυργοποιίαν διασπορᾶς, τοῖς τρισὶν αὐτοῦ υἱοῖς, κατὰ τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον καὶ ἐν τῇ συγχύσει δια σπαρὲν κατεκληρώσαντο αἱ οβʹ φυλαί τε καὶ γλῶσσαι, εἰ καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα κατά τινας καιροὺς ἀπῳκίσθησαν ἄλλοι ἀλλαχοῦ πολέμοις καὶ αἰχμαλω σίαις καὶ ταῖς κατ' ἀλλήλων πλεονεξίαις καὶ τυραννίσιν ἀλόγως χρησά μενοι· περὶ ὧν ἐντυγχάνων τις ταῖς θεοπνεύστοις πρῶτον γραφαῖς, ἔπειτα δὲ καὶ ταῖς Ἰουδαϊκαῖς καὶ Ἑλληνικαῖς καὶ Αἰγυπτιακαῖς ἢ Χαλδαϊκαῖς ἱστορίαις εἴσεται, εἰ καὶ μὴ ἐν πᾶσι χρὴ ταῖς τῶν ἀλλοπίστων συγγραφαῖς ἕπεσθαι, μάλιστα δὲ ἐν οἷς περὶ