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of the emperor Verus clearly recorded all things, both the names and the times. Therefore, the annual magistrates of the Romans, as we say, held power for 463 years. Then those called emperors ruled as follows: first Gaius Julius, who reigned 3 years, 7 months, 6 days. Then Augustus, 50 years, 4 months, 1 day. Tiberius, 22 years, months, 20 days. Then another Gaius, 3 years, 10 months, 7 days. Claudius, 13 years, 8 months, 20 days. Nero, 13 years, 7 months, 27 days. Galba, seven months, days. Otho, 3 months, 5 days. Vitellius, 8 months, 2 days. Vespasian, 9 years, 11 months, 22 days. Titus, 2 years, 2 months, 20 days. Domitian, 15 years, 5 days. Nerva, one year, 4 months, 10 days. Trajan, 19 years, six months, 14 days. Hadrian, 20 years, 10 months, 28 days. Antoninus, 22 years, 7 months, 20 days. Verus, 19 years, 10 days. Therefore, the time of the Caesars until the death of the emperor Verus is 225 years. Therefore, from the reign of Cyrus until the death of the emperor Verus, of whom we have spoken before, the whole time amounts to 741 years. And from the foundation of the world the whole time in summary is reckoned thus. from the creation of the world until the flood there were 2242 years. and from the flood until the begetting of a son by Abraham our forefather, 1030 years. and from Isaac the son of Abraham until the people sojourned with Moses in the desert, 660 years. and from the death of Moses, the rule of Jesus son of Nave, until the death of David the patriarch, 498 years. and from the death of David, and the reign of Solomon, until the sojourning of the people in the land of Babylon, 518 years, months, 10 days. and from the reign of Cyrus until the death of the emperor Aurelius Verus, 741 years. Altogether from the creation of the world all things amount to 5695 years, and the additional months and days. Therefore, with the times and all that has been said summed up, it is possible to see the antiquity of the prophetic writings and the divinity of the word among us, that the word is not recent, nor indeed are our matters, as some suppose, fabulous and false, but rather more ancient and more true. For indeed Thallus makes mention of Belus who reigned over the Assyrians and of Cronus the Titan, saying that Belus had warred with the Titans against Zeus and those with him called gods, where he says, "And Ogygus, having been defeated, fled to Tartessus, at that time indeed that country being called Acte, but now being named Attica, of which Ogygus then was ruler." And the remaining countries and cities from which they got their names, we do not think it necessary to enumerate, especially to you who knows the histories. That, therefore, Moses is shown to be more ancient than all writers (not he alone, but also the many prophets who came after him) and than Cronus and Belus and the Trojan war, is clear. For according to

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αὐτοκράτορος Oὐήρου σαφῶς πάντα ἀνέγραψεν καὶ τὰ ὀνόματα καὶ τοὺς χρόνους. Ἐκράτησαν οὖν Ῥωμαίων ἐνιαύσιοι, ὥς φαμεν, ἔτεσιν υξγ. ἔπειτα οὕτως ἦρξαν οἱ αὐτοκράτορες καλούμενοι· πρῶτος Γάϊος Ἰούλιος, ὃς ἐβασίλευσεν ἔτη γ μῆνας ζ ἡμέρας ἕξ. ἔπειτα Aὔγουστος ἔτη ν μῆνας δ ἡμέραν μίαν. Τιβέριος ἔτη κβ μῆνας ἡμέρας κ. εἶτα Γάϊος ἕτερος ἔτη γ μῆνας ι ἡμέρας ζ. Κλαύδιος ἔτη ιγ μῆνας η ἡμέρας κ. Νέρων ἔτη ιγ μῆνας ζ ἡμέρας κζ. Γάλβας μῆνας ἑπτὰ ἡμέρας . Ὄθων μῆνας γ ἡμέρας ε. Oὐϊτέλλιος μῆνας η ἡμέρας β. Oὐεσπασιανὸς ἔτη θ μῆνας ια ἡμέρας κβ. Τίτος ἔτη β μῆνας β ἡμέρας κ. ∆ομετιανὸς ἔτη ιε ἡμέρας ε. Νερούας ἐνιαυτὸν μῆνας δ ἡμέρας ι. Τραϊανὸς ἔτη ιθ μῆνας ἓξ ἡμέρας ιδ. Ἁδριανὸς ἔτη κ μῆνας ι ἡμέρας κη. Ἀντωνῖνος ἔτη κβ μῆνας ζ ἡμέρας κ. Oὐῆρος ἔτη ιθ ἡμέρας ι. γίνεται οὖν ὁ χρόνος τῶν Καισάρων μέχρι Oὐήρου αὐτοκράτορος τελευτῆς ἔτη σκε. ἀπὸ οὖν τῆς Κύρου ἀρχῆς μέχρι τελευτῆς αὐτοκράτορος Oὐήρου, οὗ προειρήκαμεν, ὁ πᾶς χρόνος συνάγεται ἔτη ψμα. Ἀπὸ δὲ καταβολῆς κόσμου ὁ πᾶς χρόνος κεφαλαιωδῶς οὕτως κατάγεται. ἀπὸ κτίσεως κόσμου ἕως κατακλυσμοῦ ἐγένοντο ἔτη βσμβ. ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦ κατακλυσμοῦ ἕως τεκνογονίας Ἀβραὰμ τοῦ προπάτορος ἡμῶν ἔτη αλ. ἀπὸ δὲ Ἰσαὰκ τοῦ παιδὸς Ἀβραὰμ ἕως οὗ ὁ λαὸς σὺν Μωσῇ ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ διέτριβεν ἔτη χξ. ἀπὸ δὲ τῆς Μωσέως τελευτῆς, ἀρχῆς Ἰησοῦ υἱοῦ Ναυῆ, μέχρι τελευτῆς ∆αυὶδ τοῦ πατριάρχου ἔτη υ%η. ἀπὸ δὲ τῆς τελευτῆς ∆αυίδ, βασιλείας δὲ Σολομῶνος, μέχρι τῆς παροικίας τοῦ λαοῦ ἐν γῇ Βαβυλῶνος ἔτη φιη μῆνες ἡμέραι ι. ἀπὸ δὲ τῆς Κύρου ἀρχῆς μέχρι αὐτοκρά- τορος Aὐρηλίου Oὐήρου τελευτῆς ἔτη ψμα. Ὁμοῦ ἀπὸ κτίσεως κόσμου συνάγονται τὰ πάντα ἔτη εχ%ε καὶ οἱ ἐπιτρέχοντες μῆνες καὶ ἡμέραι. Τῶν οὖν χρόνων καὶ τῶν εἰρημένων ἁπάντων συνηρασμένων, ὁρᾶν ἔστιν τὴν ἀρχαιότητα τῶν προφητικῶν γραμμάτων καὶ τὴν θειότητα τοῦ παρ' ἡμῖν λόγου, ὅτι οὐ πρόσφατος ὁ λόγος, οὔτε μὴν τὰ καθ' ἡμᾶς, ὡς οἴονταί τινες, μυθώδη καὶ ψευδῆ ἐστιν, ἀλλὰ μὲν οὖν ἀρχαιότερα καὶ ἀληθέστερα. Καὶ γὰρ Βήλου τοῦ Ἀσσυρίων βασιλεύσαντος καὶ Κρόνου τοῦ Τιτᾶνος Θάλλος μέμνηται, φάσκων τὸν Βῆλον πεπολεμηκέναι σὺν τοῖς Τιτᾶσι πρὸς τὸν ∆ία καὶ τοὺς σὺν αὐτῷ θεοὺς λεγομένους, ἔνθα φησίν, "Καὶ Ὤγυγος ἡττηθεὶς ἔφυγεν εἰς Ταρτησσόν, τότε μὲν τῆς χώρας ἐκείνης Ἀκτῆς κληθείσης, νυνὶ δὲ Ἀττικῆς προσαγορευομένης, ἧς Ὤγυγος τότε ἦρξεν." καὶ τὰς λοιπὰς δὲ χώρας καὶ πόλεις ἀφ' ὧν τὰς προσωνυμίας ἔσχον, οὐκ ἀναγκαῖον ἡγούμεθα καταλέγειν, μάλιστα πρὸς σὲ τὸν ἐπιστάμενον τὰς ἱστορίας. ὅτι μὲν οὖν ἀρχαιότερος ὁ Μωσῆς δείκνυται ἁπάντων συγγραφέων (οὐκ αὐτὸς δὲ μόνος ἀλλὰ καὶ οἱ πλείους μετ' αὐτὸν προφῆται γενόμενοι) καὶ Κρόνου καὶ Βήλου καὶ τοῦ Ἰλιακοῦ πολέμου, δῆλόν ἐστιν. κατὰ γὰρ