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ARTAPANUS AND THE FLOODING OF THE NILE

. (Euseb. Praep. evang. 9.435b). As far as I can tell, nearly all translators of Artapanus (Eusebius) translate the latter sentence in the same way: ‘from that time on the flooding of the Nile took place’. In other words, the annual inundation of the Nile started with Moses’ miraculous act. ‘Inundation’ is the word used by Gifford and Collins, ‘flooding’ by Holladay and Wills; ‘Ausuferung’ by Walter (134). Viger rendered in Latin, in agros sese Nilum effudisse.1 This seems perfectly reasonable. Artapanus is fond of aetiologies. The only problem, one to my knowledge not acknowledged by anyone who has written on, edited or translated Artapanus, is that there is absolutely no evidence that can mean ‘inundation’ nor is it even easy to see how the noun could come to have such a meaning. And if that is what Artapanus meant, he could readily have written .2 In addition, one misses some adjective or phrase that would mean ‘regular’ or ‘annual’.3 is, I think, a scribal error. We should read . Thus, the statement is ‘from that time on there took place the cataracting of the Nile’. That is, the famous cataracts of the Nile came about because of Moses’ smiting of the river and its initial flooding. Needless to say, this is not the science of hydrography. Palaeographically, the change is easy. The corruption was also aided by the movement from the very unusual word to the commonplace one. Indeed, I have not found in any dictionary. But it does occur in a rhetorical treatise found in 602 SHORTER NOTES