On Phoenician Letters

a nine-month, universal, or first habitation, as Bochus Maurus and Berosus Chaldaeus left testified to posterity, in addition to the Romans Solinus and Cato, in order to render the opinion of the Hebrew Josephus firm and settled for those thinking about it. Therefore, under the sacrosanct authority of the Most Christian King, let those fabulous inanities instructed by your councils—concerning Carmenta the nymph credited with inventing the Latin alphabet and Cadmus, or Arcadian livestock—be dismissed, so that they might believe he procured the reform, and not the invention, of at least the Latin character. Thus, that god-like, that is, divine and self-sufficient Japetites descendant of Japheth, who was the leader of the underworld—that is, the western part of the habitable world—among his Gallic people, brought those letters, the knowledge of which I restore to our world under your name, and he formed his descendants with them, although Berosus teaches that not Gomerus, but his brother Samothe, was the founder of the disciplines in Gaul. It is sufficient that he was either son of Japetus, son of Janus or Noah, who was received in Italy by Saturnus