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educated the people. In his time prophesied Nathan and Ahijah the Shilonite and Shemaiah and Iddo and Zadok. 213 Solomon, having begun to build the temple in Jerusalem from the second year of his reign, which was the 14th of his life, completed it in 7 years, in the eighth year of his reign, and the 20th year of his life. So from Adam until his 8th year there are 4478 years, but according to Africanus 4457, and according to Eusebius 4170. And from the divine scriptures it is possible for the one who wishes to learn the accuracy of our account. The 8th high priest of the Hebrews from Aaron, Zadok, was known according to Eusebius, but according to the accurate account, Zadok is the 11th from Aaron, thus: 1st Aaron, 2nd Eleazar, 3rd Phinehas, 4th Abishua, 5th Bokki, 6th Uzzi, 7th Eli, 8th Ahitub, 9th Samuel, 10th Abiathar, 11th Zadok. The king of the Tyrians sent to Solomon for the aid of the building of the temple 8 myriads of men. Solomon married the daughter of Hiram, the king of the Tyrians, as Tatian relates. From Josephus, from the Phoenician testimony concerning the kingdom of the Tyrians and the temple in Jerusalem: There are, then, among the Tyrians for many years public writings, written and kept very carefully, in which it is written that the temple in Jerusalem was built by Solomon the king 143 years and 8 months sooner than the Tyrians founded Carthage. And the construction of our temple was not recorded among them without reason. For Hiram the king of the Tyrians was a friend of our king Solomon, having received his father's friendship toward him. He, therefore, vying in generosity for the splendor of the construction with Solomon, gave 120 talents of gold, and cutting the most beautiful timber from the mountain which is called Lebanon, he sent it for the roof. And Solomon gave in return to him 214 many other things, both twofold things and the land of Galilee in the place called Chabol. And especially the desire for wisdom brought them together into friendship. For they sent problems to each other, bidding them to solve them, and Solomon was superior in these things and wiser in other things. And many of the letters, which they wrote to each other, are preserved among the Tyrians until now. And that the account concerning the writings among the Tyrians is not a story composed by me, I shall present as a witness Dio, an able man, believed to have been accurate concerning Phoenician history. This man, then, in his histories concerning the Phoenicians, writes in this manner. When Abibalus died, his son Hiram became king. He filled in the eastern parts of the city and made the town larger, and the temple of Olympian Zeus, being by itself, he joined to the city by filling in the intervening space to the same level, and he adorned it with golden offerings. And going up to Lebanon, he cut timber for the construction of the temples. And they say that Solomon, the ruler of Jerusalem, sent riddles to Hiram and asked to receive some from him, on condition that the one unable to discern them should pay money to the one who solved them. And that Hiram, having agreed and being unable to solve the riddles, spent much of his money for the penalty. Then, through a certain Tyrian man, Abdemon, he both solved the proposed riddles and himself proposed others, and that Solomon, not solving them, paid back much money to Hiram. Thus Dio has testified to us concerning the aforementioned things. But to this we shall also add Menander of Ephesus. And this man has written the deeds of each of the kings which happened among the Greeks and barbarians, who says concerning Hiram: And when Abibalus died, his son Hiram succeeded to the kingdom, who, having lived 53 years, reigned for 34. He filled in the Eurychoros, and set up the golden pillar in the temple of Zeus, and going for a supply of wood, he cut cedar logs from Mount Lebanon for the roofs of the temples. Then in his time there was a younger son of Abdemon, who always solved the problems which Solomon the king of Jerusalem posed. And the time is calculated from this king until the founding of Carthage thus. 215 Hiram

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ἐξεπαίδευσε λαόν. Ἐπ' αὐτοῦ προεφήτευον Νάθαν καὶ Ἀχιὰς ὁ Σιλωνίτης Σαμμαίας τε καὶ Ἀδδὼ καὶ Σαδώκ. 213 Σολομὼν τὸν ἐν Ἱερουσαλὴμ ναὸν ἀρξάμενος κτίζειν ἀπὸ δευτέρου ἔτους τῆς βασιλείας αὐτοῦ, ὅπερ ἦν ιδʹ τῆς ζωῆς αὐτοῦ, ἐν ζʹ ἔτεσιν ἐτελείωσεν ὀγδόῳ ἔτει τῆς βασιλείας αὐτοῦ, κʹ δὲ ἔτει τῆς ζωῆς αὐτοῦ. εἰσὶν οὖν ἀπὸ Ἀδὰμ ἕως ηʹ ἔτους αὐτοῦ ἔτη δυοηʹ, κατὰ δὲ τὸν Ἀφρικανὸν δυνζʹ, κατὰ δὲ Εὐσέβιον δροʹ. Ἐκ δὲ τῶν θείων γραφῶν ἔξεστι καταμαθεῖν τῷ βουλομένῳ τὴν τοῦ ἡμετέρου λόγου ἀκρίβειαν. Ἑβραίων ἀρχιερεὺς ηʹ ἀπὸ Ἀαρὼν Σαδὼκ ἐγνωρίζετο κατὰ τὸν Εὐσέβιον, κατὰ δὲ τὸν ἀκριβῆ λόγον ιαʹ ἐστὶν ὁ Σαδὼκ ἀπὸ Ἀαρὼν οὕτως· αʹ Ἀαρών, βʹ Ἐλεάζαρ, γʹ Φινεές, δʹ Ἀβιούδ, εʹ Βοχεί, ςʹ Ὀζεί, ζʹ Ἡλεί, ηʹ Ἀτώβ, θʹ Σαμουήλ, ιʹ Ἀβιάθαρ, ιαʹ Σαδώκ. Ὁ Τυρίων βασιλεὺς ἀπέστειλε Σολομῶνι πρὸς βοήθειαν τῆς οἰκοδομῆς τοῦ ναοῦ μυριάδας ἀνδρῶν ηʹ. Σιράμου τοῦ Τυρίων βασιλέως θυγατέρα ἔγημε ὁ Σολομών, ὡς Τατια νὸς ἱστορεῖ. Ἰωσήππου ἐκ τῆς Φοινίκων μαρτυρίας περὶ τῆς Τυρίων βασιλείας καὶ τοῦ ἐν Ἱεροσολύμοις ναοῦ Ἔστι τοίνυν παρὰ Τυρίοις ἀπὸ παμπόλλων ἐτῶν γράμματα δημοσίᾳ γραφέντα καὶ πεφυλαγμένα λίαν ἐπιμελῶς, ἐν οἷς γέγραπται ὅτι ὁ ἐν Ἱεροσολύμοις ᾠκοδομήθη ναὸς ὑπὸ Σολομῶνος τοῦ βασιλέως ἔτεσι θᾶτ τον ρμγʹ καὶ μησὶν ηʹ τοῦ κτίσαι Τυρίους Καρχηδόνα. ἀνεγράφη δὲ παρ' ἐκείνοις οὐκ ἀλόγως ἡ τοῦ ναοῦ κατασκευὴ τοῦ παρ' ἡμῖν. Σίρωμος γὰρ ὁ τῶν Τυρίων βασιλεὺς φίλος ἦν τοῦ βασιλέως ἡμῶν Σολομῶνος, πα τρικὴν φιλίαν πρὸς αὐτὸν διαδεξάμενος. οὗτος οὖν συμφιλοτιμούμενος εἰς τὴν τοῦ κατασκευάσματος τῷ Σολομῶνι λαμπρότητα χρυσίου μὲν κʹ καὶ ρʹ ἔδωκε τάλαντα, τεμὼν δὲ καλλίστην ὕλην ἐκ τοῦ ὄρους, ὃ καλεῖται Λίβανος, εἰς τὸν ὄροφον ἀπέστειλεν. ἀντεδωρήσατο δὲ αὐτῷ ὁ Σολομὼν 214 ἄλλοις τε πολλοῖς καὶ διττὰ καὶ χώραν τῆς Γαλιλαίας ἐν τῇ Χαβόλῳ λε γομένῃ. μάλιστα δ' αὐτοὺς εἰς φιλίαν ἡ τῆς σοφίας συνήγαγεν ἐπιθυμία. προβλήματα γὰρ ἀλλήλοις ἀντέστελλον λύειν κελεύοντες, καὶ κρείττων ἐν τούτοις ἦν ὁ Σολομὼν καὶ τὰ ἄλλα σοφώτερος. Σῴζονται δὲ μέχρι δεῦρο παρὰ τοῖς Τυρίοις πολλαὶ τῶν ἐπιστολῶν, ἃς ἐκεῖνοι πρὸς ἀλλήλους ἔγραφον. ὅτι δὲ οὐ λόγος ἐστὶν ὑπ' ἐμοῦ συγκείμε νος ὁ περὶ τῶν παρὰ τοῖς Τυρίοις γραμμάτων, παραθήσομαι μάρτυρα δεξιὸν ἄνδρα περὶ τὴν Φοινικικὴν ἱστορίαν ἀκριβῆ γεγονέναι πεπιστευμέ νον ∆ίωνα. Οὗτος τοίνυν ἐν ταῖς περὶ Φοινίκων ἱστορίαις γράφει τὸν τρόπον τοῦτον. Ἀβιβάλου τελευτήσαντος υἱὸς αὐτοῦ Σίρωμος ἐβασίλευσεν. οὗτος τὰ πρὸς ἀνατολὰς μέρη τῆς πόλεως προσέχωσε καὶ μεῖζον τὸ ἄστυ ἐποίησε καὶ τοῦ Ὀλυμπίου ∆ιὸς τὸ ἱερὸν καθ' ἑαυτὸ ὂν ἐν ἴσῳ χώσας τὸν μεταξὺ τό πον συνῆψε τῇ πόλει καὶ χρυσοῖς ἀναθήμασιν ἐκόσμησεν. ἀναβὰς δὲ εἰς τὸν Λίβανον ὑλοτόμησε πρὸς τὴν τῶν ἱερῶν κατασκευήν. τὸν δὲ τυραννοῦντα Ἱεροσολύμων Σολομῶνα πέμψαι φασὶ πρὸς τὸν Σίρωμον αἰνίγματα καὶ παρ' αὐτοῦ λαβεῖν ἀξιοῦν· τὸν δὲ μὴ δυνηθέντα διακρῖναι τῷ λύσαντι χρήματα ἀποτείνειν. ὁμολογήσαντα δὲ τὸν Σίρωμον καὶ μὴ δυνηθέντα λῦσαι τὰ αἰ νίγματα, πολλὰ τῶν χρημάτων εἰς τὸ ἐπιζήμιον ἀναλῶσαι. εἶτα δι' Ἀβδάμο νόν τινα Τύριον ἄνδρα τά τε προτεθέντα λῦσαι καὶ αὐτὸν ἄλλα προβαλεῖν, ἃ μὴ λύσαντα τὸν Σολομῶνα πολλὰ τῷ Σιρώμῳ προσαποτῖσαι χρήματα. ∆ίων μὲν οὕτως περὶ τῶν προειρημένων ἡμῖν μεμαρτύρηκεν. ἀλλὰ πρὸς τοῦτο παραθήσομεν καὶ Μένανδρον τὸν Ἐφέσιον. γέγραφε δ' οὗτος τὰς ἐφ' ἑκάστου τῶν βασιλέων πράξεις τὰς παρὰ τοῖς Ἕλλησι καὶ βαρβάροις γενομένας, ὅς φησι περὶ Σιρώμου· τελευτήσαντος δὲ Ἀβιβάλου διεδέξατο τὴν βασιλείαν ὁ υἱὸς αὐτοῦ Σίρωμος, ὃς βιώσας ἔτη νγʹ ἐβασίλευσεν λδʹ. οὗτος ἔχωσε τὸν εὐρύχωρον, τόν τε χρυσοῦν κίονα ἐν τοῖς τοῦ ∆ιὸς ἀνέθη κεν, ἐπί τε ὕλην ξύλων ἀπελθὼν ἔκοψεν ἀπὸ τοῦ Λιβάνου ὄρους κέδρινα ξύλα εἰς τὰς τῶν ἱερῶν στέγας. εἶτα ἐπὶ τούτου ἦν Ἀβδήμουνος παῖς νεώτε ρος, ὃς ἀεὶ ἐνίκα τὰ προβλήματα ἃ ἐπέτασσε Σολομὼν ὁ Ἱεροσολύμων βασιλεύς. ψηφίζεται δὲ ὁ χρόνος ἀπὸ τούτου τοῦ βασιλέως ἄχρι Καρχηδό νος κτίσεως οὕτως. 215 Σίρωμος