esently what has
been the occasion why it has been called Africa also. Canaan, the fourth
son of Ham, inhabited the country now called Judea, and called it from
his own name Canaan. The children of these [four] were these: Sabas, who
founded the Sabeans; Evilas, who founded the Evileans, who are called
Getuli; Sabathes founded the Sabathens, they are now called by the
Greeks Astaborans; Sabactas settled the Sabactens; and Ragmus the
Ragmeans; and he had two sons, the one of whom, Judadas, settled the
Judadeans, a nation of the western Ethiopians, and left them his name;
as did Sabas to the Sabeans: but Nimrod, the son of Chus, staid and
tyrannized at Babylon, as we have already informed you. Now all the
children of Mesraim, being eight in number, possessed the country from
Gaza to Egypt, though it retained the name of one only, the Philistim;
for the Greeks call part of that country Palestine. As for the rest,
Ludieim, and Enemim, and Labim, who alone inhabited in Libya, and called
the country from himself, Nedim, and Phethrosim, and Chesloim, and
Cephthorim, we know nothing of them besides their names; for the
Ethiopic war[17] which we shall describe hereafter, was the cause that
those cities were overthrown. The sons of Canaan were these: Sidonius,
who also built a city of the same name; it is called by the Greeks Sidon
Amathus inhabited in Amathine, which is even now called Amathe by the
inhabitants, although the Macedonians named it Epiphania, from one of
his posterity: Arudeus possessed the island Aradus: Arucas possessed
Arce, which is in Libanus. But for the seven others, [Eueus,] Chetteus,
Jebuseus, Amorreus, Gergesus, Eudeus, Sineus, Samareus, we have nothing
in the sacred books but their names, for the Hebrews overthrew their
cities; and their calamities came upon them on the occasion following.

3. Noah, when, after the deluge, the earth was resettled in its former
condition, set about its cultivation; and when he had planted it with
vines, and when the fruit was ripe, and he had gathered the grapes in
their season, and the wine was ready for use, he offered sacrifice, and
feasted, and, being drunk, he fell asleep, and lay naked in an unseemly
manner. When his youngest son saw this, he came laughing, and showed
him to his brethren; but they covered their father's nakedness. And when
Noah was made sensible of what had been done, he prayed for prosperity
to his other sons; but for Ham, he did not curse him, by r