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contain various texts bearing (on f. 2349 the title: από τής έκθέσεως Ίωάννου
Αντιοχέως τής περί χρόνων καί κτίσεως κόσμου πονηθείσης, ώς φησιν,
από βίβλων Μωσέως, Αφρικανού, Ευσεβίου, Παππίου καί Διδύμου καί
ετέρων.5 There is no doubt that this material belongs to the Malalas’ tradition, but
here the excerpt a from Malalas are recopied in the chronicle of John of Antioch, an
author belonging to the outset of the 7th century. Therefore, Parisinus gr. 1630 is a
manuscript of John of Antioch’s Historic/, chronica. The first part of the work of John
of Antioch owes much to Malalas, whose own work has been partially copied by the
former with few additions or insertions. As usual, John of Antioch uses several sources
for the various historical periods he deals with. In this case, however, he clearly relies
on Malalas for his archaiologia in Books I—II. Indeed, compared to the text in Parisi-
nus suppl. gr. 682, the one preserved in Parisinus gr. 1630, f. 234r is a version of Malalas’
introduction, heavily abbreviated by John of Antioch.6
2. Malalas and Africanus: the direct quotations
Leaving transmission problems aside, the preface to the Chronographia confirms that
Malalas himself considers Africanus’ Chronographiae as one of his principal sources.
Malalas’ familiarity with Africanus, however, exists on different levels. First and fore-
most, there are passages in which Malalas cites Africanus’ text directly. One group of
such passages concerns lists of kings and rulers: Malalas states he has taken them from
the Chronographiae. This is the case of the kings of Sicyon, also transmitted by the
Excerpta Latina Barbari (pp. 292,4-296, 2 Frick) under the name of Africanus:
Των δέ Σικυωνίων τών νυνίλεγομένων Έλλαδικών έβασίλευσεν πρώτος
ό Αίγιαλεύς έτη νβ', καί λοιπόν άλλοι βασιλείς κς', έως Ζευξίππου τού
βασιλεύσαντος αυτών έτη λα', καί λοιπόν οί ιερείς αυτών έδιοίκουν τήν
χώραν, καί κατέσχεν ή βασιλεία αυτών έτη χπε', καθώς Αφρικανός ό
σοφώτατος συνεγράψατο.
Of the Sicyonians, who are now called Helladici, Aegialeus was their first king,
for 52 years. And then the remaining 26 kings up to Zeuxippus who was their king
for 31 years. And then their priests managed the region. And their kingdom was in
power for 985 years, as Africanus, the most wise, has recorded.7

5 See the apparatus to loannes Antiochenus, Historia chronica fr. 1 Roberto.
6 See Roberto (2005), pp. XLV-LIII; contra Mariev (2009). See also Jeffreys/Jeffreys/Scott (1986), p. xxxii
(under the heading ‘B’); Jeffreys (1996), pp. 53-54· John of Antioch’s knowledge of Africanus is clearly
indirect and depends wholly on John Malalas to whom he was closely related.
7 Malalas, Chronographia IV 1 (pp. 48, 12-16 Thurn) = lulius Africanus, Chronographiae F5ib Wallraff/
Roberto; for this and the following passages from Africanus/Malalas the translation given is the one by
William Adler in Wallraff (2007). See Wallraff (2007), pp. 139-145, esp. p. 139 n. 1. In general, on the lists
of kings and rulers in Malalas see also Caire (2006), pp. 35-41.