OLpEN—On the Geography of Ros Ailithir. 239 
LOO 
In Little Asia are seen these places: Bithynia, Phrygia, Lydia, Galatia ; 
Paphlagonia, Lycia, famous Troy, Isauria, Paria,“ Pamphylia. 
OKT 
Cappadocia at the east not small; at the west’ the sea of Propontis, 
[Which extends] south from Cimér of bright fame, to the Aigean Sea. 
XXXII. 
Cessair on the shore of the Sea of Eig, Germain west from it with pure heights, 
From Germain west to the sea; Sidon with its neighbour towns. 
XXXIII. 
The tribes of God who have the great knowledge, not hidden is their extent in the 
east, 
Took possession of the shore of the great sea, from Sidon to Egypt. 
Are known, &c. 
XXXIV. 
It was Apher, sony of Keturah and Abraham, who gave his name to Africa, 
Asan appellation, in memory of his wounds. From [carrying] a wallet he was named. 
XXXV. 
Its name of Libya? [comes] from the pleasant brook which trickles to the headland, 
Or from the pure sweet-voiced mother of Agenor, king of Africa. 
would seem that they transferred this term (rofhis) in Christian times to the Old 
Testament. 
Great Sea.—The Jewish name for the Levant.—Numbers, xxxiv. 6. 
y We have evidence here that the copyist of the Oxford ms. made conjectural 
emendations of the text. Not finding in the Bible any son of Abraham called 
Affer, he alters the text, and substitutes a grandson of Abraham (Gen. xxv. 4). 
He was not aware that Mac Cosse followed Josephus, who quotes authorities as to 
Abraham haying had a son named Apher, and assigns the same cause for the name 
of Africa: 
QOphy oTparevoas ém) Thy AiBuny 
KOT ETXEY avThy kal of viwyol auto 
KATOLKNOAYTES EV AUTH THY YY amo TOU 
exelvou ovduatos Appikay mpoonydopevoay. 
Antig., B. 1, ch. xv. 
It is worth noticing that the Oxford copy, by adding xo (or) before o elithra, 
shows that the copyist did not understand his author, who meant to convey that 
Apher derived his name from gepw, because ‘‘ he carried’? a wallet. It is not an 
alternative explanation, as he makes it; but he was apparently unacquainted with 
Greek. 
z Libya.—F rom A:Bas, a trickling stream, irregular accusative, AiBa. This seems 
an instance of Volksetymologie, originating with the Greek inhabitants of North 
Africa. 
