The Extant Fragments of the Five Books of the…
III.—The Extant Fragments of the Five Books of the Chronography of Julius Africanus.
And after the flood, Sem begot Arphaxad.
In the year of the world 3277, Abraham entered the promised land of Canaan.
From this record, therefore, we affirm that Ogygus, After a break After another break
On the Seventy Weeks of Daniel.
On the Circumstances Connected with Our Saviour’s Passion and His Life-Giving Resurrection.
XV.34 From the same, Book III., and from Book IV. In Syncellus p. 197, al. 158.
And Africanus, in the third book of his History, writes: Now the first Olympiad recorded—which, however, was really the fourteenth—was the period when Corœbus was victor;35 The text is, ἀναγραφῆναι δὲ πρώτην τὴν τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτην, etc. at that time Ahaz was in the first year of his reign in Jerusalem. Then in the fourth book he says: It is therefore with the first year of the reign of Ahaz that we have shown the first Olympiad to fall in.