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The Extant Fragments of the Five Books of the Chronography of Julius Africanus · XI. From Adam, Therefore, to the Death of Joseph, According to This Book, Are 23 Generations, and 3563 Years

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From this record,1100 therefore, we affirm that Ogygus,1101 from whom the first flood (in Attica) derived its name,1102 and who was saved when many perished, lived at the time of the exodus of the people from Egypt along with Moses.1103 (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.1104 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.

Notes

  1. 1098

    In Georgius Syncellus, Chron., p. 106, al 85.

  2. 1099

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

  3. 1100

    suntagmatos.

  4. 1101

    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.

  5. 1102

    The text is, hos tou protou kataklusmou gegonen heponumos. The word heponumos is susceptible of two meanings, either "taking the name from" or "giving the name to." 'Ogugia kaka was a proverbial expression for primeval ills.

  6. 1103

    The text is here, kata ten Aigupton tou laou meta Mouseos exodon genesthai, for which we may read kata ten hex Haiguptou, etc.

  7. 1104

    Ogugon 'Aktaion e ta plassomena ton onomaton. Compare xiii. 6, where we have ton gar meta Ogugon 'Aktaion, etc.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 6, ed. Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe (1885–96). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.