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From this record, 2 therefore, we affirm that Ogygus, 3 from whom the first flood (in Attica) derived its name, 4 and who was saved when many perished, lived at the time of the exodus of the people from Egypt along with Moses. 5 (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. 6 Philochorus, however, affirms that Ogygus, Actaeus, 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.
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In the same, p. 148, al. 118, from the Third Book of the Chron. of Africanus. ↩
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suntagmatos. ↩
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Others write Ogyges. Josephus (in Apionem), Euseb. (de Praepar.). Tatian [vol. ii. p. 81], Clemens [not so, vol. ii. p. 324], and others write Ogygus. ↩
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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. ↩
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The text is here, kata ten Aigupton tou laou meta Mouseos exodon genesthai, for which we may read kata ten hex Haiguptou, etc. ↩
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Ogugon 'Aktaion e ta plassomena ton onomaton. Compare xiii. 6, where we have ton gar meta Ogugon 'Aktaion, etc. ↩
