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to have become, and thus he is depicted as effeminate for other shameful reasons and because he armed a mixed-gender army; for he armed the females along with the males, as Philochorus says in his second book. Linus was known as the teacher of Heracles; Androgeus was treacherously murdered in Athens; Philammon the Delphian flourished, the first to establish a chorus at Pytho. The things concerning Daedalus, who was thought to make statues that moved. for he was the first to separate the feet of the statues, as Palaephatus relates, since all those before 191 him fashioned them with their feet joined together. He is fabled to have flown away with Icarus his son by taking hold of a boat and to have escaped Minos by becoming impossible for his pursuer to find. Thamyris, son of Philammon, flourished. Minos ruled the sea and gave laws to the Cretans as if from Zeus, bringing the laws from the cave on Ida every nine years, a thing which Plato refutes in the *Laws*. Heracles was completing his labors and, having wrestled down Antaeus in Libya, he destroys the one called earth-born because he was knowledgeable in the method used by wrestlers on the ground, so that he seemed to be helped by his mother earth, whom Heracles, being strong and not needing it, girt Antaeus with his grips and, lifting him up, killed him. And the Hydra, the mythical beast, Plato calls a sophistess, on account of whom the same Heracles sacked Ilium. Medea the Colchian departed from Aegeus. War of the Centaurs and Lapiths. The Centaurs were the best horsemen of the Thessalians, as Palaephatus says in the first book of *Incredible Tales*. The Seven marched against Thebes. The things concerning the Minotaur, as the myth goes, that a mixed beast was born from the animal, the bull, and Pasiphae, and that receiving the tribute from the Athenians, it feasted on the children. But the Cnossians themselves say that he was a general of Minos, who was named Taurus, and was cruel and savage by nature. And since Minos was holding games in honor of Androgeus, whom the Athenians had killed, and he was giving the Attic children as a prize, Taurus, being strong, was defeating everyone. And when Theseus was also given a share in the contest and wrestled down Taurus, it came to pass that the children were saved and the city was released from the tribute, as Philochorus related in the second book of his *Atthis*. The Epigoni of the Seven marched against Thebes. Phaedra fell in love with Hippolytus. Minos, having marched against Sicily on account of Daedalus, is killed by the daughters of Cocalus. During these times was Samson, who among the Greeks is called Heracles, 192 who, after the labors and the slaying of Antaeus the earth-born in Libya and the contest at Olympia and the first capture of Troy by him during the reign of Laomedon, father of Priam, king of Troy, having fallen into a pestilential disease, threw himself into a fire and thus departed from men, having lived in all 52 years. Some relate that Heracles was born a little before this, and others say that he lived for more years.

YEARS OF THE WORLD God gave Jair the Gileadite as judge to Israel after

Tola, who had 32 sons and 32 cities, which they ruled. He judged the people for 20 years. And the year of the world was 4181. The Ammonites prevailed over Israel for 18 years. And the year of the world was 4201. After Jair the Gileadite, Israel, having sinned, was delivered to the Ammonites to serve them for 18 years. But when they confessed to God, Jephthah was given to them, from the tribe of Manasseh, son of Gilead and of a prostitute woman. He, having vowed to God to sacrifice after the victory against the Moabites whatever living thing met him when he returned from the war from his house, if he should be victorious, and since his one and only beloved daughter met him, he sacrificed her to God, not unwillingly, after she had lamented her virginity for two months beforehand. Jephthah judged Israel for 6 years. And the year of the world was 4219. He warred against the sons of Ephraim who blamed him because he did not take them with him in the war, and he killed thirty-two thousand of them. Jephthah says the years from Moses until himself are 300 in the book of Judges,

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γενέσθαι, καὶ οὕτω γράφεται θηλύμορφος διά τε ἄλλας αἰσχρὰς αἰτίας καὶ διὰ τὸ μιξόθηλυν στρατὸν ὁπλίζειν· ὥπλιζε γὰρ σὺν τοῖς ἄρρεσι καὶ τὰς θηλείας, ὥς φησιν ὁ Φιλόχορος ἐν δευτέρῳ. Λίνος διδάσκαλος Ἡρακλέους ἐγνωρίζετο· Ἀνδρόγεως ἐδολοφονήθη ἐν Ἀθήναις· Φιλάμμων ὁ ∆ελφὸς ἤκμαζεν, ὁ πρῶτος στήσας Πυθοῖ χορόν. Τὰ κατὰ ∆αίδαλον, ὃς ἔδοξεν ἀγάλματα κινούμενα ποιεῖν. πρῶτος γὰρ διέστησε τοὺς τῶν ἀγαλμάτων πόδας, ὡς ὁ Παλαίφατος ἱστορεῖ, τῶν πρὸ 191 αὐτοῦ πάντων συμπεφυκότας αὐτοὺς πλαττόντων. οὗτος ἀποπτῆναι μυ θεύεται σὺν Ἰκάρῳ τῷ υἱῷ αὐτοῦ πλοίου λαβόμενος καὶ διαφυγὼν τὸν Μίνωα διὰ τὸ ἀνεύρετον γενέσθαι τῷ διώκοντι. Θάμυρις ὁ Φιλάμμωνος ἤκμαζε. Μίνως ἐθαλασσοκράτει καὶ Κρησὶν ὡς παρὰ ∆ιὸς ἐνομοθέτει, κομίζων τοὺς νόμους ἐξ ἄντρου τοῦ ἐν τῇ Ἴδῃ διὰ ἐννεαετηρίδος, ὅπερ ὁ Πλάτων ἐν τοῖς Νόμοις ἐλέγχει. Ἡρακλῆς τοὺς ἄθλους ἐτέλει καὶ Ἀνταῖον ἐν Λιβύῃ καταπαλαίσας ἀν αιρεῖ τὸν λεγόμενον γηγενῆ διὰ τὸ ἐπιστήμονα εἶναι τὸν λεγόμενον παρὰ τοῖς παλαισταῖς τρόπον χαμαί, ὡς ἀπὸ τῆς μητρὸς γῆς βοηθεῖσθαι δοκεῖν, ὃν Ἡρακλῆς ἰσχυρὸς ὢν μὴ προσδεηθεὶς ζώσας τὸν Ἀνταῖον τοῖς ἅμμασι καὶ μετεωρίσας διεχειρίσατο. Τὴν δὲ Ὕδραν τὸ μυθευόμενον ζῷον ὁ Πλάτων σοφίστριαν λέγει, δι' ἣν ὁ αὐτὸς Ἡρακλῆς τὸ Ἴλιον ἐπόρθησε. Μήδεια Κολχὶς ἀνεχώρησεν Αἰγέως. Πόλεμος Κενταύρων καὶ Λαπιθῶν. Κένταυροι δὲ Θεσσαλῶν ἦσαν ἱπ πεῖς ἄριστοι, ὥς φησι Παλαίφατος ἐν πρώτῃ ἀπίστων. Οἱ ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας ἐστράτευσαν. Τὰ περὶ τὸν Μινώταυρον, ὡς μὲν ὁ μῦθος, ὅτι δὴ ἐκ ταύρου τοῦ ζῴου καὶ Πασιφάης μιξόθηρ ἐγένετο καὶ τὸν παρ' Ἀθηναίων δασμὸν κομιζό μενος ἐθοινᾶτο τοὺς παῖδας. αὐτοὶ δὲ οἱ Κνώσιοι λέγουσιν εἶναι τοῦ Μί νωος στρατηγόν, ὃς ὠνομάζετο μὲν Ταῦρος, τὴν δὲ φύσιν ὠμὸς καὶ ἀν ήμερος ἦν. ἐπεὶ δὲ Μίνως ἀγῶνα ἐπ' Ἀνδρογέῳ ἐτίθει, ὃν ἀπέκτειναν Ἀθηναῖοι, τοὺς Ἀττικοὺς δὲ παῖδας ἔπαθλον ἐδίδου, ἰσχυρὸς ὢν ὁ Ταῦρος πάντων κατεκράτει. ὡς δὲ καὶ τῷ Θησεῖ τοῦ ἀγῶνος μετεδόθη καὶ τὸν Ταῦρον κατεπάλαισε, συνέβη καὶ τοὺς παῖδας διασωθῆναι καὶ τὴν πόλιν ἀφεθῆναι τοῦ δασμοῦ, ὡς Φιλόχορος ἱστόρησεν ἐν δευτέρᾳ Ἀτθίδος. Οἱ Ἐπίγονοι τῶν ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας ἐστράτευσαν. Φαίδρα Ἱππολύτου ἠράσθη. Μίνως ἐπὶ Σικελίαν στρατεύσας διὰ ∆αίδαλον ἀναιρεῖται ὑπὸ τῶν Κω κάλου θυγατέρων. Κατὰ τούτους τοὺς χρόνους Σαμψὼν ἦν, ὁ παρ' Ἕλλησι βοώμενος Ἡρα 192 κλῆς, ὃς μετὰ τοὺς ἄθλους καὶ τὴν Ἀνταίου ἀναίρεσιν τοῦ γηγενοῦς ἐν Λιβύῃ καὶ τὸν ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ ἀγῶνα καὶ τὴν πρώτην ὑπ' αὐτοῦ ἅλωσιν Τροίας ἐπὶ Λαομέδοντος πατρὸς Πριάμου βασιλέως Τροίας λοιμώδει νόσῳ περιπεσὼν εἰς πῦρ ἐνήλατο καὶ οὕτως ἐξ ἀνθρώπων ἐγένετο, βιώ σας τὰ πάντα ἔτη νβʹ. τινὲς δὲ πρὸ τούτου μικρὸν ἱστοροῦσι γενέσθαι Ἡρακλῆν, ἄλλοι τε πλείονα ἔτη ζῆσαί φασιν αὐτόν.

ΚΟΣΜΟΥ ΕΤΗ Ἰαεὶρ τὸν Γαλααδίτην κριτὴν ἔδωκεν ὁ θεὸς τῷ Ἰσραὴλ μετὰ

τὸν Θω λᾶν, ὃς εἶχεν υἱοὺς λβʹ καὶ λβʹ πόλεις, ὧν ἦρχον. οὗτος ἔκρινε τὸν λαὸν ἔτη κʹ. τοῦ δὲ κόσμου ἦν ἔτος δρπαʹ. Ἀμμανῖται ἐκράτησαν τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ ἔτη ιηʹ. τοῦ δὲ κόσμου ἦν ἔτος δσαʹ. Μετὰ τὸν Γαλααδίτην Ἰαεὶρ ἁμαρτήσας ὁ Ἰσραὴλ παρεδόθη Ἀμμανίταις δουλεύειν ἔτη ιηʹ. ἐξομολογησαμένοις δὲ αὐτοῖς τῷ θεῷ ἐδόθη αὐτοῖς Ἰεφθάε ὁ ἐκ φυλῆς Μανασσῆ, υἱὸς Γαλαὰδ καὶ γυναικὸς πόρνης. οὗτος εὐξάμενος τῷ θεῷ θύσειν μετὰ τὴν κατὰ Μωαβιτῶν νίκην τὸ συναντῆσον αὐτῷ ζῷον ἐπανιόντι τοῦ πολέμου ἐκ τῆς οἰκίας αὐτοῦ, εἰ νικήσοι, μιᾶς αὐτοῦ μονογενοῦς θυγατρὸς δ' οὔσης καὶ φιλτάτης συναντησάσης αὐτῷ ταύτην ἔθυσε τῷ θεῷ οὐκ ἄκουσαν, ἐπὶ μῆνας δύο τὴν παρθενίαν αὐτῆς προπενθήσασαν. Ἰεφθάε ἔκρινε τὸν Ἰσραὴλ ἔτη ςʹ. τοῦ δὲ κόσμου ἦν ἔτος δσιθʹ. Οὗτος ἐπολέμησε τοῖς υἱοῖς Ἐφραῒμ μεμφομένοις αὐτῷ ὅτι οὐ παρέλαβεν αὐτοὺς ἐν τῷ πολέμῳ, καὶ ἀπέκτεινε τρισμυρίους δισχιλίους αὐτῶν. Ὁ Ἰεφθάε τὰ ἀπὸ Μωυσέως ἕως αὐτοῦ τʹ λέγει εἶναι ἐν τῇ βίβλῳ τῶν κριτῶν,