On Phoenician Letters

had used these letters for six thousand years in Hispania Spain before the times of Augustus the first Roman Emperor. I have authors whom I can trust, and who rightly provide assurance to me and to the entire Respublica Christiana Christian Commonwealth, by whom it is established that the use of letters in Gallia Gaul/France was so ancient that those letters which Cadmus the legendary founder of Thebes who brought the alphabet to Greece brought to Graecia Greece from Phoenicia many ages later, and which he inverted from the right-to-left or natural order into the perverted left-to-right order contrary to nature, as we and the Graeci Greeks now use, were said to be similar to them. We had them so long before the Greeks. Therefore, since it is established by the testimony of Solinus a 3rd-century Roman grammarian that the Galli Gauls were the first people of the entire world, because they gave the name of their own designation to the Umbri an ancient people of Italy—a people in the West and in Italy, who were the first in the memory of letters—which was derived from there both in Hebraice Hebrew and Graece Greek, because they were survivors of the rains of the Diluvium Great Flood, there is no doubt that they preserved the use of letters. Indeed, both sacred writings and Josephus a first-century Jewish historian testify that there was use of letters before the Flood