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SANCHONIATHON

Volume 9 · 40 words · 1778 Edition

a Phoenician historiographer, contemporary with Gideon the Israelitish judge, who wrote nine books of the ancient theology and history of Phoenicia; we have some fragments of it in Porphyry de Abstinentia, and in Eusebius. Mr Doddwell thinks it all counterfeit.