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Πλὴν Ὅμηρος ἔστω μὴ ὕστερον τῶν Ἰλιακῶν, ἀλλὰ κατ ἐκεῖνον αὐτὸν ὑπειλήφθω τὸν τοῦ πολέμου καιρόν, ἔτι δὲ καὶ τοῖς περὶ τὸν Ἀγαμέμνονα συστρατεύεσθαι, καὶ εἰ βούλεταί τις πρὶν καὶ τῶν στοιχείων γεγονέναι τὴν εὕρεσιν. Φανήσεται γὰρ ὁ προειρημένος Μωυσῆς αὐτῆς μὲν τῆς Ἰλιακῆς ἁλώσεως πρεσβύτερος πάνυ πολλοῖς ἔτεσι γεγονώς, τῆς δὲ Ἰλίου κτίσεως καὶ τοῦ Τρωὸς καὶ Δαρδάνου λίαν ἀρχαιότερος. Ἀποδείξεως δὲ ἕνεκεν μάρτυσι χρήσομαι Χαλδαίοις, Φοίνιξιν, Αἰγυπτίοις. Καὶ τί μοι λέγειν πλείονα; χρὴ γὰρ τὸν πείθειν ἐπαγελλόμενον συντομωτέρας ποιεῖσθαι τὰς περὶ τῶν πραγμάτων πρὸς τοὺς ἀκούοντας διηγήσεις.Βηρωσὸς ἀνὴρ Βαβυλώνιος, ἱερεὺς τοῦ παρ αὐτοῖς Βήλου, κατ Ἀλέξανδρον γεγονώς, Ἀντιόχῳ τῷ μετ αὐτὸν τρίτῳ τὴν Χαλδαίων ἱστορίαν ἐν τρισὶ βιβλίοις κατατάξας καὶ τὰ περὶ τῶν βασιλέων ἐκθέμενος, ἀφηγεῖταί τινος αὐτῶν ὄνομα Ναβουχοδονόσορ, τοῦ στρατεύσαντος ἐπὶ Φοίνικας καὶ Ἰουδαίους· ἅτινα διὰ τῶν καθ ἡμᾶς προφητῶν ἴσμεν κεκηρυγμένα, γεγονότα μὲν πολὺ τῆς Μωυσέως ἡλικίας κατώτερα, πρὸ δὲ τῆς Περσῶν ἡγεμονίας ἔτεσιν ἑβδομήκοντα. Βηρωσὸς δέ ἐστιν ἀνὴρ ἱκανώτατος· καὶ τούτου τεκμήριον Ἰόβας, ὅς, Περὶ Ἀσσυρίων γράφων, παρὰ Βηρωσοῦ φησι μεμαθηκέναι τὴν ἱστορίαν. Εἰσὶ δὲ αὐτῷ βίβλοι Περὶ Ἀσσυρίων δύο
雖然如此，姑且假定荷馬並非晚於特洛伊戰事，乃是屬於那戰爭的當時，甚至與阿伽門農左右之人一同出征，倘若有人願意，甚至假定他生在文字發明之前。即便如此，前述的摩西仍將被證為遠在伊利昂陷落之前許多年就已活著，且遠比伊利昂的建城、比特洛斯與達耳達諾斯都更古老。為求證明，我要用迦勒底人、腓尼基人與埃及人作見證。我又何必多說呢？因為立志要說服人的，理當把諸事的記述向聽眾說得更簡明些。貝羅索斯是個巴比倫人，是他們當中彼勒的祭司，活在亞歷山大時期，他為亞歷山大之後第三位的安提阿古斯，用三卷書編纂了迦勒底人的歷史，又陳述了關乎諸王的事，述及其中一位名叫尼布甲尼撒的，曾出兵攻打腓尼基人與猶太人——這些事我們知道是藉我們的眾先知所宣告的，發生在遠晚於摩西的年代，卻在波斯人稱霸之前七十年。貝羅索斯是個極有能力的人；其證據便是猶巴，他著《論亞述人》時說，他這段歷史是從貝羅索斯學來的。猶巴有兩卷《論亞述人》的書。
Nevertheless, let Homer be supposed to be not later than the Trojan events, but to belong to that very period of the war, and even to have campaigned together with those around Agamemnon, and, if anyone wishes, even to have lived before the discovery of letters. For the aforesaid Moses will be shown to have lived very many years before the capture of Ilium itself, and far more ancient than the founding of Ilium and than Tros and Dardanus. And for the sake of demonstration I will use as witnesses the Chaldaeans, the Phoenicians, and the Egyptians. And what need have I to say more? For he who undertakes to persuade must make the accounts of matters to his hearers more concise. Berossus, a Babylonian man, priest of Belus among them, who lived in the time of Alexander, having arranged for Antiochus, the third after him, the history of the Chaldaeans in three books, and having set forth the affairs concerning the kings, narrates of a certain one among them, named Nebuchadnezzar, who campaigned against the Phoenicians and the Jews—which things we know to have been proclaimed through our prophets, having come to pass much later than the age of Moses, and seventy years before the supremacy of the Persians. And Berossus is a most competent man; and a proof of this is Juba, who, writing On the Assyrians, says he learned the history from Berossus. And there are two books by him On the Assyrians.