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dnced great warriors and princes — the Battidas, amongst others, kings of 

 Thera, whose monarch, Batto the Pirst, Herodotus says, came to Tar- 

 tessus' in Spain, and founded also the kingdom and city of Cyrene, in 

 Africa, which was governed 200 years by kings of his line. 



The fabulous Berosus, continues Pellicer, in the third book of An- 

 nius, gives an account of the peopling of the world after the flood, the 

 women of the sons of ISToah being blessed continually with twins, and 

 at each birth a male and female child being born. 'Noah was employed 

 in writing books on sacred subjects, astrology, and other sciences. He 

 abandoned his bodk to take on him the government of Italy, Ketim, 

 where he died, and received divine honours after death. He was the 

 first who planted the vine, and got drunk from the juice of it. ^ot a 

 word of these details is to be found in the third book of the true Be- 

 rosus. 



Annius makes the Scythians the parent stock of the Armenians ; he 

 refers to the books of the Scythians, which were never heard of in any 

 other book. 



The real Berosus wrote in three books his Ohaldaic Assyrian His- 

 tory. Annius of Yiterbo made his Berosus the author of five books. 

 In the first book of the fabulous Berosus the author gives an account of 

 the deluge, and of i^oah's preservation, and that of his three children, 

 Shem, Ham, and Japhet, quite conformable to the Mosaic account. 

 The true Berosus makes no mention of IS^oah and his children; he 

 speaks of Xisuthro being preserved in a great inundation. Sanchoni- 

 athon makes no mention of a deluge, but Bishop Cumberland supposes 

 Ouranus must be JN^oah. 



Annius makes Berosus give a detailed series of the kings of four Eu- 

 ropean nations — the Celtileri, the Celts, the Italians, and the Tuyscones. 

 By the nation of the Celtiberi is meant Spain, by which name it was 

 unknown in any ancient work. 



The fabulous Berosus describes the state of Scythism as one of bar- 

 barity, existing from the time of the deluge to the building of the Tower 

 of Babel, and thence to the time of Seruch ; from the latter period to 

 that of Abraham, the state of society was that of Grecism, which was a 

 state of erudite idolatry. Judaism then commenced, and merged in 

 Christianity, in which was the state of regeneration St. Paul has referred 

 to. His account of the origin of the Scythians is curious. After de- 

 scribing the first state of the human race to the period of the deluge : — 

 Previouslj' (he says) there was no diversity of opinion, no discord 

 among tribes, no man dreamt of heresy nor idolatry, each person lived 

 after his own opinion ; there was no established law ; each was a law 

 to himself, and lived in conformity with his reason ; and this condition 

 was called barbarism during the generation from Adam to l^oah." 



He then proceeds with the narrative of Noah's descent on Mount 

 Lubar, or Ararat, in Armenia. " The people (he says) of the four first 

 generations lived in barbarism, without impiety, however ; but those of 

 the next generation, under seventy- two princes and captains, betook 



