1.1 (l.d.ii) Oldfather (1939)

A Flood on Lesbos (English) in: EuropeGreek

And seven generations later, after the flood of Deucalion had taken place and much of mankind had perished, it came to pass that Lesbos was also laid desolate by the deluge of waters. And after these events Macareus came to the island, and, recognizing the beauty of the land, he made his home in it.

(l.d.i) Greek(l.d.ii) Oldfather (1939)(l.d.iii) Caduff (1986) (German)(l.d.iv) Secondary sources

– Oldfather, C. H., The Library of History of Diodorus of Sicily: Volume III; Books IV.59-VIII, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1939), p. 319. [This source is in the public domain; download here].

– Laurén, Giles, Diodorus Siculus I: The Historical Library in Forty Books (Volume 1), (Sophron Editor, 2014, 2017) is essentially a reprint of the English text of Oldfather.

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