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History of Phoenicia

CHAPTER XIII--PHOENICIAN WRITING, LANGUAGE, AND LITERATURE
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These persons invented the method of producing fire by rubbing two pieces of wood together, and taught men to employ it.

They begat sons of surprising size and stature, whose names were given to the mountains whereof they had obtained possession, viz.

Casius, and Libanus, and Antilibanus, and Brathy.

From them were produced Memrumus and Hypsuranius, who took their names from their mothers, women in those days yielding themselves without shame to any man whom they happened to meet.

Hypsuranius lived at Tyre, and invented the art of building huts with reeds and rushes and the papyrus plant.


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