e Greeks resolved, were
named Phrygians. Of the three sons of Javan also, the son of Japhet,
Elisa gave name to the Eliseans, who were his subjects; they are now the
Aeolians. Tharsus to the Tharsians, for so was Cilicia of old called;
the sign of which is this, that the noblest city they have, and a
metropolis also, is Tarsus, the tau being by change put for the theta.
Cethimus possessed the island Cethima: it is now called Cyprus; and from
that it is that all islands, and the greatest part of the sea-coasts,
are named Cethim by the Hebrews: and one city there is in Cyprus that
has been able to preserve its denomination; it has been called Citius
by those who use the language of the Greeks, and has not, by the use of
that dialect, escaped the name of Cethim. And so many nations have the
children and grandchildren of Japhet possessed. Now when I have premised
somewhat, which perhaps the Greeks do not know, I will return and
explain what I have omitted; for such names are pronounced here after
the manner of the Greeks, to please my readers; for our own country
language does not so pronounce them: but the names in all cases are of
one and the same ending; for the name we here pronounce Noeas, is there
Noah, and in every case retains the same termination.

2. The children of Ham possessed the land from Syria and Amanus, and the
mountains of Libanus; seizing upon all that was on its sea-coasts, and
as far as the ocean, and keeping it as their own. Some indeed of its
names are utterly vanished away; others of them being changed, and
another sound given them, are hardly to be discovered; yet a few there
are which have kept their denominations entire. For of the four sons of
Ham, time has not at all hurt the name of Chus; for the Ethiopians, over
whom he reigned, are even at this day, both by themselves and by all men
in Asia, called Chusites. The memory also of the Mesraites is preserved
in their name; for all we who inhabit this country [of Judea] called
Egypt Mestre, and the Egyptians Mestreans. Phut also was the founder of
Libya, and called the inhabitants Phutites, from himself: there is also
a river in the country of Moors which bears that name; whence it is that
we may see the greatest part of the Grecian historiographers mention
that river and the adjoining country by the appellation of Phut: but
the name it has now has been by change given it from one of the sons of
Mesraim, who was called Lybyos. We will inform you pr