# Fragmenta 1

Berosus Chaldaeus, Fragmenta, Dfhg-Source dfhg2_BEROSUS_CHALDAEUS. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/berosus-chaldaeus/fragmenta/1

Βήρωσσος ὁ τῆς Χαλδαῖκῆς ἀρχαιολογίας συγγραφεὺς ἀκμάσας κατὰ τοὺς χρόνους Ἀλεξάνδρου τοῦ Μακεδόνος, ὥς φησι, καὶ εὑρὼν ἐν Βαβυλῶνι πολλῶν ἀναγραφὰς φυλασσομένα ἐπιμελῶς, αἳ περιεῖχον ἐτῶν μυριάδας που δεκαπέντε καὶ μικρὸν πρὸς, ἱστορίας τινὰς περὶ οὐρανοῦ τε καὶ γῆς, καὶ θαλάσσης καὶ βασιλέων ἀρχαιότητος καὶ τῶν πράξεων αὐτῶν, περί τε θέσεως τῆς Βαβυλωνίας γῆς καὶ καρποφορίας αὐτῆς καὶ ζώων τινῶν ἐκ τῆς Ἐρυθρᾶς θαλάσσης φανέντων παρὰ φύσιν τῷ εἴδει, καὶ ἄλλα τινὰ μυθώδη ταῦτα, κομπολογίᾳ τινὶ συνέγραψεν. Deinde: Δοξάσαι θέλων τὸ τῶν Χαλδαίων ἔθνος καὶ δεῖξαι πάντων τῶν ἐθνῶν ἀρχαιότερον ὁ Βήρωσσος καὶ οἱ κατ ̓ αὐτὸν, ὁ Ἀλέξανδρος, φημὶ, ὁ Πολυίστωρ λεγόμενος καὶ Ἀβυδηνὸς, ταῦτα γεγράφασι.

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BEROSUS CHALDAEUS, Fragmenta. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: https://thegreeklibrary.pages.lisn.upsaclay.fr/works/tlg1222.tlg003.local002/.