"The Antiquities of the Jews", by Flavius Josephus

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The Antiquities of the Jews
Written by Flavius Josephus
Translated by William Whiston

Book One
Chapter 5

After What Manner The Posterity Of Noah Sent Out Colonies, And
Inhabited The Whole Earth.

1. After this they were dispersed abroad, on account of their languages, and went out by colonies every where; and each colony
took possession of that land which they light upon, and unto which God led them; so that the whole continent was filled with
them, both the inland and the maritime countries. There were some also who passed over the sea in ships, and inhabited the islands:
and some of those nations do still retain the denominations which were given them by their first founders; but some have lost them
also, and some have only admitted certain changes in them, that they might be the more intelligible to the inhabitants. And they
were the Greeks who became the authors of such mutations. For when in after-ages they grew potent, they claimed to themselves
the glory of antiquity; giving names to the nations that sounded well (in Greek) that they might be better understood among
themselves; and setting agreeable forms of government over them, as if they were a people derived from themselves.

 

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