XII.
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From this record,
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therefore, we affirm that Ogygus,
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from whom the first
flood (in Attica) derived its name,
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and who was saved when many perished, lived
at the time of the exodus of the people from Egypt along with
Moses.
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(
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.
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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.
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In the same, p. 148, al. 118, from the Third Book of the
Chron.
of Africanus.
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συντάγματος
.
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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.
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The text
is,
ὃς τοῦ πρωτοῦ
κατακλυσμοῦ
γέγονεν
ἑπώνυμος
. The
word
ἑπώνυμος
is susceptible
of two meanings, either “taking the name from” or
“giving the name to.”
᾽Ωγυγια
κακα
was a proverbial expression for
primeval ills.
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The
text is here,
κατὰ
τὴν Αἴγυπτον
τοῦ λαοῦ μετὰ
Μωυσέως
ἔξοδον
γενέσθαι
, for which we may read
κατὰ τὴν ἑξ
Αἱγυπτου
, etc.
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῞Ωγυγον
᾽Ακταῖον ἢ
τὰ
πλασσόμενα
τῶν
ὀνομάτων
.
Compare xiii. 6, where we have
τὸν γὰρ μετὰ
῞Ωγυγον
᾽Ακταῖον
, etc.