Chapter XXXVII.—Testimony of the Phœnicians.
After the Chaldeans, the testimony of the
Phœnicians is as follows. There were among them three men,
Theodotus, Hypsicrates, and Mochus; Chaitus translated their
books into Greek, and also composed with exactness the lives of the
philosophers. Now, in the histories of the aforesaid writers it is shown
that the abduction of Europa happened under one of the kings, and an
account is given of the coming of Menelaus into Phœnicia, and of the
matters relating to Chiramus,511511 who gave his
daughter in marriage to Solomon the king of the Jews, and supplied wood
of all kind of trees for the building of the temple. Menander of Pergamus
composed a history concerning the same things. But the age of Chiramus is
somewhere about the Trojan war; but Solomon, the contemporary of Chiramus,
lived much later than the age of Moses.
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