country language does not so pronounce them: but the names in all
cases are of one and the same ending; for the name we here
pronounce Noeas, is there Noah, and in every case retains the
same termination.

2. The children of Ham possessed the land from Syria and Amanus,
and the mountains of Libanus; seizing upon all that was on its
sea-coasts, and as far as the ocean, and keeping it as their own.
Some indeed of its names are utterly vanished away; others of
them being changed, and another sound given them, are hardly to
be discovered; yet a few there are which have kept their
denominations entire. For of the four sons of Ham, time has not
at all hurt the name of Chus; for the Ethiopians, over whom he
reigned, are even at this day, both by themselves and by all men
in Asia, called Chusites. The memory also of the Mesraites is
preserved in their name; for all we who inhabit this country [of
Judea] called Egypt Mestre, and the Egyptians Mestreans. Phut
also was the founder of Libya, and called the inhabitants
Phutites, from himself: there is also a river in the country of
Moors which bears that name; whence it is that we may see the
greatest part of the Grecian historiographers mention that river
and the adjoining country by the apellation of Phut: but the
name it has now has been by change given it from one of the sons
of Mesraim, who was called Lybyos. We will inform you presently
what has been the occasion why it has been called Africa also.
Canaan, the fourth son of Ham, inhabited the country now called
Judea, and called it from his own name Canaan. The children of
these [four] were these: Sabas, who founded the Sabeans; Evilas,
who founded the Evileans, who are called Getuli; Sabathes founded
the Sabathens, they are now called by the Greeks Astaborans;