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Alexandrian, a very wise man. Now Caesar was always mad for the wives of other men, so that they themselves served his defilement. For whenever one of the senators came to him having a beautiful wife, he would send his own ring to him, and would demand that he put his wife into a covered litter and seal it, and then send the ring back; and so, receiving the woman in the litter, he would act licentiously, seal it, and send her back. This happened to a certain man, who 1.303 not daring to refuse, lamented his misfortune. Athenodorus came upon them as they were weeping, and having learned the cause, he asked that they put him in the litter and, after sealing it, send it, while he carried a naked sword. When he was brought, Caesar thought it was the senator's wife, and when he opened the doors, Athenodorus leapt out with a sword and utterly terrified Caesar with the suddenness of it. And he calmed him in his fear, and bound him with the greatest oaths never to do this again. Caesar approved of him so much that he gathered the senate and praised Athenodorus at length, adding this also, that having lived a bad life, he had been corrected by Athenodorus. But when Athenodorus grew old, he asked to depart to his homeland; for he said that Caesar was perfect in all philosophy and action. But he barely permitted his departure. And as he was about to depart, he embraced him, and leaning to his ear, he urged that whenever he became angry, he should not command what was to be done before he had recited to himself the 24 letters; for he knew his quick temper and volatility. And Caesar, understanding, said, "Well done, you have reminded me that I am imperfect and in need of your teaching. For this reason I will not allow you to set foot in your homeland for the time being." In his second year the indictions were devised and the bissextile day, and he set forth civil laws. And Virgil was known among the Romans as a poet. In his time they record that Judas the Gali- 1.304 laean, who is mentioned in the Acts, arose, and that Antipater, the father of Herod, was established as king of Judaea by the Romans.

But Antony, the general and consul of the Romans, as Dio Cocceianus says, after killing Brutus and Cassius, the murderers of Julius Caesar, took up the army and came into Syria. But smitten with love for Cleopatra, he took up arms against Augustus Caesar; wherefore he had decided not to return to Rome as one who would give an account. This Antony, having planned a revolt with Cleopatra of Alexandria and Egypt, filled in the sea strait lying between the city of Alexandria and the island of Pharos, which had a distance of about four miles. Therefore, having completed this strait with much labor and zeal and expense, with Dexiphanes the engineer leading the work, they made it mainland and passable, which had formerly been impassable, so that it was possible to cross to Pharos without hindrance. In his 14th year, and in the 42nd year of the monarchy of Augustus Caesar, Christ our God is born. This year from the creation of the world, according to the more accurate records, is #22εφʹ, in the month of December, on the 25th, on the 4th day. The eighteenth cycle of the sun, and the 15th cycle of the moon. Then, wishing to know the day on which Christ our true God was born, we take the 4 epacts of the sun for the present year, and to these we add the days from the beginning of the first month, April 30, May 31, 1.305 June 30, July 31, August 31, September 30, October 31, November 30, December 25, altogether 271. Take these away by sevens thus: seven times 40 is 280; 11 7; remainder 4. We know, therefore, that on the same day on which He created the luminaries, Christ our true God was born, being the sun of righteousness. In the 15th year of Tiberius Caesar he is baptized by John, in the first indiction, in the Jordan river, on the 13th day of his 31st year, on the 6th of the month of January. in the year #22εφʹ

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Ἀλεξανδρέα σοφώτατον πάνυ. ἦν δὲ Καῖσαρ μανιώδης ἀεὶ περὶ τὰς τῶν ἀλλοτρίων γυναῖκας, ὡς καὶ αὐτοὺς ἐξυπηρετεῖν τῷ μιάσματι. ἡνίκα γὰρ ἤρχετό τις τῶν βουλευτῶν πρὸς αὐτὸν ὡραίαν ἔχων γυναῖκα, ἔπεμπε πρὸς τοῦτον τὸν οἰκεῖον δακτύλιον, καὶ ἠξίου ἐμβαλεῖν τὴν γαμετὴν ἐν καταστέγῳ φορείῳ καὶ κατασημάνασθαι, καὶ αὖθις τὸν δακτύλιον ἀντιπέμψασθαι· καὶ οὕτω δεχόμενος τὴν γυναῖκα ἐν τῷ φορείῳ ἀσελγαίνων ἐσφράγιζε καὶ ἀνταπέστρεφεν. ὅπερ γέγονέ τινι, ὃς 1.303 μὴ τολμήσας ἀντειπεῖν ἀπωδύρετο τὸ δυστύχημα. οἷς ἐπιστὰς Ἀθηνόδωρος κλαίουσι, καὶ τὴν αἰτίαν μαθών, ἑαυτὸν ᾔτησεν ἐμβαλεῖν τῷ φορείῳ καὶ κατασημηναμένους ἀποστεῖλαι, γυμνὸν ξίφος ἐπιφερόμενον. οὗ ἀπαχθέντος ἐδόκει Καῖσαρ τὴν γυναῖκα εἶναι τοῦ συγκλητικοῦ, καὶ ἀνοίξαντος τὰς θύρας ἐξέθορε ξιφήρης Ἀθηνόδωρος καὶ πάνυ κατέπτηξε τῷ ἀθρόῳ τὸν Καίσαρα. καὶ δεδιότα αὐτὸν ἀνεκτήσατο, καὶ τοῖς μεγίστοις κατέδησεν ὅρκοις μηδέποτε τοῦτο πρᾶξαι. ὃν τοσοῦτον ἀπεδέξατο ὡς τὴν σύγκλη τον συναγαγὼν πολλὰ τὸν Ἀθηνόδωρον ἐγκωμιάσαι, προσθεῖναι δὲ καὶ τοῦτο, ὡς κακὸν βίον ἐσχηκὼς ὑπὸ Ἀθηνοδώρου ἐπανωρ θώθη. γηράσας δὲ ὁ Ἀθηνόδωρος ᾔτησεν ἀπελθεῖν εἰς τὴν πα τρίδα· ἔλεγε γὰρ ὡς τέλειος εἴη ὁ Καῖσαρ κατὰ πᾶσαν φιλοσοφίαν καὶ πρᾶξιν. ὁ δὲ μόλις ἐπέτρεψεν αὐτῷ τὴν ἀναχώρησιν. ὡς δὲ μέλλων ἀπαίρειν ἠσπάζετο αὐτόν, καὶ ἐπικύψας εἰς τὸ οὖς παρε κάλει ἵν' ὁσάκις ὀργισθῇ, μὴ πρότερον κελεύσῃ τὸ πρακτέον, πρὶν ἂν καθ' ἑαυτὸν ἀριθμήσῃ τὰ κδʹ στοιχεῖα· ᾔδει γὰρ αὐτοῦ τὸ ὀξύθυμον καὶ εὐμετάβλητον. ὁ δὲ Καῖσαρ αἰσθόμενος ἔφη "εὖγε, ὑπέμνησάς με ὡς ἀτελής εἰμι καὶ τῆς σῆς διδασκαλίας δεόμενος. διὰ τοῦτο οὐ συγχωρήσω σοι τῆς ἐνεγκαμένης τέως ἐπιβῆναι." Τούτου τῷ δευτέρῳ ἔτει αἱ ἴνδικτοι ἐπενοήθησαν καὶ τὸ βίσεξτον, καὶ νόμους ἐξέθετο πολιτικούς. καὶ Βιργίλιος παρὰ Ῥωμαίοις ἐγνωρίζετο ποιητής. ἐπὶ τούτου καὶ Ἰούδαν τὸν Γαλι 1.304 λαῖον τὸν ἐν ταῖς πράξεσιν ἐμφερόμενον ἱστοροῦσιν ἐγηγέρθαι, καὶ Ἀντίπατρον τὸν Ἡρώδου πατέρα τῆς Ἰουδαίας βασιλέα καταστῆναι ὑπὸ Ῥωμαίων.

Ἀντώνιος δὲ ὁ στρατηγὸς καὶ ὕπατος Ῥωμαίων, ὥς φησι ∆ίων ὁ Κόκκειος, ἀνελὼν Βροῦτον καὶ Κάσιον τοὺς φονευτὰς Ἰουλίου Καίσαρος, τὸν στρατὸν ἀναλαβὼν ἦλθεν ἐν Συρίᾳ. ἔρωτι δὲ βληθεὶς Κλεοπάτρας ἀντῆρεν Αὐγούστῳ Καίσαρι· ὅθεν ἐπαν ελθεῖν εἰς Ῥώμην οὐκ ἐγνώκει ὡς λόγον ἀποδώσων. οὗτος ὁ Ἀντώνιος μετὰ Κλεοπάτρας Ἀλεξανδρείας καὶ Αἰγύπτου ἀνταρσίαν βουλευσάμενος προσέχωσε τὸν Ἀλεξανδρείας τῆς πόλεως καὶ Φάρου τῆς νήσου μεταξὺ διακείμενον θαλάσσιον πορθμόν, ὡσεὶ τέσσαρα μίλια ἔχοντα διάστημα. τοῦτον οὖν τὸν πορθμὸν χειρὶ πολλῇ καὶ σπουδῇ καὶ δαπάνῃ, ∆εξιοφάνους μηχανικοῦ τοῦ ἔργου προηγουμένου, συντελέσαντες ἤπειρον καὶ βατὸν εἶναι παρεσκεύα σαν ἄβατον ὄντα τὸ πρότερον, καὶ ἀκωλύτως ἐξεῖναι πρὸς τὴν Φάρον διαβαίνειν. Τούτου τῷ ιδʹ ἔτει Αὐγούστου δὲ Καίσαρος μβʹ ἔτει τῆς μοναρχίας αὐτοῦ, τίκτεται Χριστὸς ὁ θεὸς ἡμῶν. ἔτος τοῦτο κτίσεως κόσμου κατὰ τὰς ἀκριβεστέρας ἀναγραφὰς #22εφʹ, μηνὶ ∆εκεμβρίῳ κεʹ, ἡμέρᾳ δʹ. κύκλος ἡλίου ὀκτωκαιδέκατος, καὶ σε λήνης κύκλος ιεʹ. εἶτα γνῶναι τὴν ἡμέραν βουλόμενοι καθ' ἣν ἐτέχθη Χριστὸς ὁ ἀληθινὸς θεὸς ἡμῶν, τίθεμεν τὰς κατὰ τὸ παρὸν ἔτος δʹ ἐπακτὰς τοῦ ἡλίου, καὶ ταύταις προστίθεμεν τὰς ἀπὸ ἀρχῆς τοῦ πρώτου μηνὸς ἡμέρας, Ἀπριλλίου λʹ, Μαΐου λαʹ, 1.305 Ἰουνίου λʹ, Ἰουλίου λαʹ, Αὐγούστου λαʹ, Σεπτεμβρίου λʹ, Ὀκτωβρίου λαʹ, Νοεμβρίου λʹ, ∆εκεμβρίου κεʹ, ὁμοῦ ςαʹ. ταύτας ὕφελε ἐπὶ τῶν ἑπτὰ οὕτως· ἑπτάκις μʹ σπʹ· ιαʹ ζʹ· λοιπαὶ δʹ. ἔγνωμεν οὖν ὡς καθ' ἣν ἡμέραν ἐδημιούργησε τοὺς φωστῆρας, κατ' αὐτὴν ἐτέχθη Χριστὸς ὁ ἀληθινὸς θεὸς ἡμῶν ὡς ὑπάρχων ἥλιος δικαιοσύνης. Τῷ ιεʹ ἔτει Τιβερίου Καίσαρος βαπτίζεται ὑπὸ Ἰωάννου, ἰνδικτιῶνι πρώτῃ, ἐν τῷ Ἰορδάνῃ ποταμῷ, τῇ ιγʹ ἡμέρᾳ τοῦ λαʹ ἔτους αὐτοῦ, ʹ τοῦ Ἰανουαρίου μηνός. ἐν τῷ #22εφʹ