Chapter 9

Notes

1. 28

   The incongruity in this sentence is Justin’s.

2. 29

   [Autochthones]. That is, sprung from the soil; and hence the oldest inhabitants, the aborigines.

3. 30

   Literally, archæology.

4. 31

   Unfortunately, Justin here mistook Menes for Moses. [But he may have so read the name in his copy. See Grabe’s note on Diodorus, and the quotation following in another note.]

5. 32

   This sentence must be so completed from the context in Diodorus. See the note of Maranus.