The Extant Fragments of the Five Books of the…

 III.—The Extant Fragments of the Five Books of the Chronography of Julius Africanus.

 When men multiplied on the earth, the angels of heaven came together with the daughters of men. In some copies I found “the sons of God.” What is mean

 Adam, when 230 years old, begets Seth and after living other 700 years he died, that is, a second death.

 On the Deluge.

 Noe was 600 years old when the flood came on. From Adam, therefore, to Noe and the flood, are 2262 years.

 And after the flood, Sem begot Arphaxad.

 In the year of the world 3277, Abraham entered the promised land of Canaan.

 Of Abraham.

 Of Abraham and Lot.

 Of the Patriarch Jacob.

 From Adam, therefore, to the death of Joseph, according to this book, are 23 generations, and 3563 years.

 From this record, therefore, we affirm that Ogygus, After a break After another break

 1. Up to the time of the Olympiads there is no certain history among the Greeks, all things before that date being confused, and in no way consistent

 Æschylus, the son of Agamestor, ruled the Athenians twenty-three years, in whose time Joatham reigned in Jerusalem.

 And Africanus, in the third book of his History, writes : Now the first Olympiad recorded—which, however, was really the fourteenth—was the period whe

 On the Seventy Weeks of Daniel.

 On the Fortunes of Hyrcanus and Antigonus, and on Herod, Augustus, Antony, and Cleopatra, in Abstract.

 On the Circumstances Connected with Our Saviour’s Passion and His Life-Giving Resurrection.

 For we who both know the measure of those words, and are not ignorant of the grace of faith, give thanks to the Father,

XII.21 In the same, p. 148, al. 118, from the Third Book of the Chron. of Africanus.

From this record,22 συντάγματος. therefore, we affirm that Ogygus,23 Others write Ogyges. Josephus (in Apionem), Euseb. (de Præpar.). Tatian [vol. ii. p. 81], Clemens [not so, vol. ii. p. 324], and others write Ogygus. from whom the first flood (in Attica) derived its name,24 The text is, ὃς τοῦ πρωτοῦ κατακλυσμοῦ γέγονεν ἑπώνυμος. The word ἑπώνυμος is susceptible of two meanings, either “taking the name from” or “giving the name to.” ᾽Ωγυγια κακα was a proverbial expression for primeval ills. and who was saved when many perished, lived at the time of the exodus of the people from Egypt along with Moses.25 The text is here, κατὰ τὴν Αἴγυπτον τοῦ λαοῦ μετὰ Μωυσέως ἔξοδον γενέσθαι, for which we may read κατὰ τὴν ἑξ Αἱγυπτου, etc. (After a break): And after Ogygus, on account of the vast destruction caused by the flood, the present land of Attica remained without a king till the time of Cecrops, 189 years.26 ῞Ωγυγον ᾽Ακταῖον ἢ τὰ πλασσόμενα τῶν ὀνομάτων. Compare xiii. 6, where we have τὸν γὰρ μετὰ ῞Ωγυγον ᾽Ακταῖον, etc. Philochorus, however, affirms that Ogygus, Actæus, or whatever other fictitious name is adduced, never existed. (After another break): From Ogygus to Cyrus, as from Moses to his time, are 1235 years.