Sabactas settled the Sabactens; and Ragmus the Ragmeans; and he
had two sons, the one of whom, Judadas, settled the Judadeans, a
nation of the western Ethiopians, and left them his name; as did
Sabas to the Sabeans: but Nimrod, the son of Chus, staid and
tyrannized at Babylon, as we have already informed you. Now all
the children of Mesraim, being eight in number, possessed the
country from Gaza to Egypt, though it retained the name of one
only, the Philistim; for the Greeks call part of that country
Palestine. As for the rest, Ludieim, and Enemim, and Labim, who
alone inhabited in Libya, and called the country from himself,
Nedim, and Phethrosim, and Chesloim, and Cephthorim, we know
nothing of them besides their names; for the Ethiopic war(17)
which we shall describe hereafter, was the cause that those
cities were overthrown. The sons of Canaan were these: Sidonius,
who also built a city of the same name; it is called by the
Greeks Sidon
Amathus inhabited in Amathine, which is even now called Amathe by
the inhabitants, although the Macedonians named it Epiphania,
from one of his posterity: Arudeus possessed the island Aradus:
Arucas possessed Arce, which is in Libanus. But for the seven
others, [Eueus,] Chetteus, Jebuseus, Amorreus, Gergesus, Eudeus,
Sineus, Samareus, we have nothing in the sacred books but their
names, for the Hebrews overthrew their cities; and their
calamities came upon them on the occasion following.

3. Noah, when, after the deluge, the earth was resettled in its
former condition, set about its cultivation; and when he had
planted it with vines, and when the fruit was ripe, and he had
gathered the grapes in their season, and the wine was ready for
use, he offered sacrifice, and feasted, and, being drunk, he fell