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he made its squares wide, and he made it better; for it had been desolate for 70 years. This was the second rebuilding of the temple. The temple was completed in 40 years. And the same Artaxerxes, having been entreated by some of his senate, also released the remaining Jews, and whoever wished at that time to go up to Jerusalem, went up 161 with Ezra the prophet and leader; to whom he also gave the sacred vessels and the priestly books that were found; and the same Ezra caused the memoirs of the books that were not found to be written from his memory. And in the same times the country of Macedonia had a king; in which Cranaus first reigned for 28 years. and afterwards another 23 reigned until Philip. And at that time there were teaching Greek things the philosophers and poets Sophocles and Heracleides and Euripides and Herodotus and Socrates and the great Pythagoras. And Heracles was born in the aforementioned times above in Lato of the Thebaid, being of the race of Heracles who was from Alcmene and Picus Zeus; who was raised in the country of Hispania, and having become brave, came then from Hispania to Italy, fleeing King Eurystheus; and he reigned for 38 years. who took to wife Auge, the daughter of King Aleus, and he reigned, as one descended from the race of Picus Zeus; whence the Italians and kings, that is, reges, who reigned from his race in the farthest parts of the west, also erected for him golden and porphyry columns; which columns stand to the present day. 162 There are therefore from Adam until these times 5362 years. And after Artaxerxes many other Assyrians reigned until Darius the Younger. And of Italy there reigned the son of Heracles by Auge, Telephus. and after him his son likewise reigned, whom he called Latinus; and Latinus himself reigned in that country for 18 years, and from his own name he renamed those called Citians, Latins. Then Aeneas the Phrygian, son of Anchises, fleeing from the sack of Ilium, that is, the Trojan war, went to Libya to the Phoenician Dido, also called Elissa. and having tarried there, he secretly left her and fled, as if in fear of Iarbas, king of Africa; as Virgil the wise poet of the Romans wrote. But the most wise Servius the Roman set forth in his writings, saying that many years after Aeneas died, Dido was from a small city called Chartima, in coastal Phoenicia, between the borders of Tyre and Sidon. This Dido was very rich; and she had a husband named Sychaeus, who was himself also exceedingly rich. And this Sychaeus was killed, while hunting, by the 163 brother of Dido named Pygmalion, who was envious of him, as he was very wealthy and gave orders to that whole country. For the two were on horseback chasing a wild boar and carrying hunting-spears; therefore Pygmalion, coming from behind, struck Sychaeus in his back with the lance, and killed him; for he was noble; and taking his corpse he threw it down a precipice. And returning, he said to those who belonged to him and to his wife that as he was pursuing the wild boar he fell down the precipice. And the same Pygmalion wanted to kill his own sister also and take all the money. to this Dido her husband Sychaeus appeared in a vision and said to her, "Flee, lest Pygmalion kill you," showing her also the place of the wound. and so the same Dido, escaping the notice of her brother Pygmalion, and finding an opportunity, took all her money, and putting it into ships with her own people, fled and sailed away from Phoenicia, and came to Libya, a country of Africa. and she founds there a very great city, which she called

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τὰς πλατείας αὐτῆς ἐποίησεν εὐρυχώρους, καὶ βελτίω αὐτὴν κατέστησεν· ἦν γὰρ ἔρημος ἐπὶ ἔτη οʹ. αὕτη ἦν ἡ δευτέρα τοῦ ἱεροῦ ἀνοικοδομή. ἐπληρώθη δὲ τὸ ἱερὸν δι' ἐτῶν μʹ. ὁ δὲ αὐτὸς Ἀρταξέρξης παρακληθεὶς ὑπό τινων τῆς συγκλήτου αὐτοῦ, καὶ τοὺς ὑπολοίπους Ἰουδαίους ἀπέλυσε, καὶ εἴτις ἐὰν ἠβουλήθη τότε ἀνελθεῖν εἰς τὴν Ἱερουσαλήμ, ἀνῆλθε 161 μετὰ Ἔσδρα τοῦ προφήτου καὶ ἡγουμένου· ᾧτινι καὶ τὰ ἱερὰ σκεύη ἔδωκε καὶ τὰς βίβλους τὰς ἱερατικὰς τὰς εὑρεθείσας· ὁ δὲ αὐτὸς Ἔσδρας τῶν μὴ εὑρεθέντων βιβλίων ἀπὸ ὑπομνήσεως αὐτοῦ γράφεσθαι τὰ ὑπομνήματα ἐποίησεν. Ἐν δὲ τοῖς αὐτοῖς χρόνοις ἐβασίλευσεν ἡ Μακεδονία χώρα· ἐν ᾗ πρῶτος ἐβασίλευσεν ὁ Κραναὸς ἔτη κηʹ. καὶ λοιπὸν ἐβασίλευσαν ἄλλοι κγʹ ἕως Φιλίππου. ἦσαν δὲ τότε τὰ τῶν Ἑλλήνων διδάσκοντες φιλόσοφοι καὶ ποιηταὶ Σοφοκλῆς καὶ Ἡρακλείδης καὶ Εὐριπίδης καὶ Ἡρόδοτος καὶ Σωκράτης καὶ ὁ μέγας Πυθαγόρας. ἦν δὲ Ἡρακλῆς γεννηθεὶς ἐν τοῖς προειρημένοις ἀνωτέρω χρόνοις ἐν Λατῷ τῆς Θηβαΐδος, ἐκ γένους ὑπάρχων τοῦ Ἡρακλέος τοῦ ἐκ τῆς Ἀλκμήνης καὶ τοῦ Πίκου ∆ιός· ὅστις ἀνετράφη ἐν τῇ Ἱσπανίᾳ χώρᾳ, καὶ ἀνδρεῖος γενόμενος ἦλθε τότε ἀπὸ τῆς Ἱσπανίας ἐπὶ τὴν Ἰταλίαν, φυγὼν τὸν Εὐρυσθέα βασιλέα· καὶ ἐβασίλευσεν ἔτη ληʹ. ὅστις ἔλαβε γυναῖκα τὴν Αὔγην, τὴν Ἀλέου θυγατέρα βασιλέως, ἐβασίλευσε δέ, ὡς ἐκ τοῦ γένους καταγόμενος τοῦ Πίκου ∆ιός· ὅθεν καὶ στήλας αὐτῷ χρυσᾶς καὶ πορφυρᾶς ἀνέστησαν οἱ Ἰταλοὶ καὶ βασιλεῖς, ἤτοι ῥῆγες, ἐκ τοῦ γένους αὐτοῦ βασιλεύσαντες ἐν τοῖς ἐσχάτοις τῆς δύσεως μέρεσιν· αἵτινες στῆλαι ἕως τοῦ παρόντος ἵστανται. 162 Εἰσὶν οὖν ἀπὸ Ἀδὰμ ἕως τῶν χρόνων τούτων ἔτη ετξβʹ. Καὶ μετὰ Ἀρταξέρξην ἐβασίλευσαν τῶν Ἀσσυρίων ἄλλοι πολλοὶ ἕως ∆αρείου τοῦ νεωτέρου. Τῆς δὲ Ἰταλίας ἐβασίλευσεν ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ Ἡρακλέος ὁ ἀπὸ τῆς Αὔγης, ὁ Τήλεφος. καὶ μετ' αὐτὸν ἐβασίλευσεν ὁμοίως ὁ υἱὸς αὐτοῦ, ὅντινα Λατῖνον ἐκάλεσεν· ἐβασίλευσε δὲ ἐν τῇ χώρᾳ ἐκείνῃ αὐτὸς Λατῖνος ἔτη ιηʹ, καὶ ἐκ τοῦ ἰδίου ὀνόματος τοὺς Κιτιαίους καλουμένους ἐπωνόμασε Λατίνους. Τότε δὲ Αἰνείας ὁ Ἀγχίσου ὁ Φρὺξ φεύγων ἐκ τῆς πορθήσεως τοῦ Ἰλίου, ἤτοι τοῦ Τρωικοῦ πολέμου, ἀπῆλθεν ἐπὶ τὴν Λιβύην πρὸς τὴν Φοίνισσαν ∆ιδὼ τὴν καὶ Ἐλισσάν. καὶ ἐνδιατρίψας ἐκεῖ, λάθρᾳ ἐάσας αὐτὴν ἔφυγεν, ὡς φοβηθεὶς τὸν Ἰάρβα, βασιλέα τῆς Ἀφρικῆς· καθὰ Βεργίλλιος ὁ σοφὸς Ῥωμαίων ποιητὴς συνεγράψατο. ὁ δὲ σοφώτατος Σέρβιος ὁ Ῥωμαῖος ἐν τοῖς αὐτοῦ συγγράμμασιν ἐξέθετο, εἰπὼν ὅτι μετὰ τὸ τελευτῆσαι τὸν Αἰνείαν ἔτη πολλὰ ἦν ἡ ∆ιδὼ ἀπὸ πόλεως μικρᾶς λεγομένης Χαρτίμας, οὔσης τῆς παράλου Φοινίκης, μεταξὺ τῶν ὁρίων Τύρου καὶ Σιδῶνος. ἥτις ∆ιδὼ ἦν πλουσιωτάτη· ἔσχε δὲ ἄνδρα τινὰ ὀνόματι Συχαῖον, ὄντα καὶ αὐτὸν πλούσιον σφόδρα. τὸν δὲ αὐτὸν Συχαῖον ἐφόνευσεν, ὡς κυνηγοῦντα, ὁ ἀδελφὸς τῆς 163 ∆ιδὼ ὀνόματι Πυγμαλίων, διαφθονούμενος αὐτῷ, ὡς πολὺ εὐπόρῳ καὶ κελεύοντι πάσῃ τῇ χώρᾳ ἐκείνῃ. ἦσαν γὰρ οἱ δύο ἔφιπποι καταδιώκοντες σύαγρον καὶ βαστάζοντες βήναβλα· ἐκ τῶν ὀπισθίων οὖν ἐλθὼν ὁ Πυγμαλίων δέδωκε τῷ Συχαίῳ κατὰ τοῦ νώτου αὐτοῦ τῇ λόγχῃ, καὶ ἐφόνευσεν αὐτόν· ἦν γὰρ γενναῖος· καὶ λαβὼν τὸ λείψανον αὐτοῦ ἔῤῥιψεν εἰς κρημνόν. καὶ ὑποστρέψας εἶπε τοῖς διαφέρουσιν αὐτῷ καὶ τῇ γαμετῇ αὐτοῦ ὅτι ὡς κατεδίωκε τὸν σύαγρον κατεκρημνίσθη. ἠβούλετο δὲ ὁ αὐτὸς Πυγμαλίων καὶ τὴν αὑτοῦ ἀδελφὴν φονεῦσαι καὶ λαβεῖν τὰ χρήματα πάντα. ᾗτινι ∆ιδὼ ἐφάνη ἐν ὁράματι ὁ αὐτῆς ἀνὴρ Συχαῖος καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῇ, Φύγε, μή σε φονεύσῃ Πυγμαλίων, δείξας αὐτῇ καὶ τὸν τόπον τῆς πληγῆς. καὶ λοιπὸν ἡ αὐτὴ ∆ιδὼ λαθοῦσα τὸν ἑαυτῆς ἀδελφὸν Πυγμαλίωνα, καὶ εὑροῦσα καιρόν, ἔλαβε πάντα τὰ χρήματα τὰ ἑαυτῆς, καὶ βαλοῦσα εἰς πλοῖα μετὰ τῶν ἰδίων ἀνθρώπων αὐτῆς φυγοῦσα ἀπέπλευσεν ἐκ τῆς Φοινίκης, καὶ ἦλθεν εἰς τὴν Λιβύην, χώραν τῆς Ἀφρικῆς. καὶ κτίζει ἐκεῖ πόλιν μεγάλην πάνυ, ἣν ἐκάλεσε