58. Now these Phenicians who came with Cadmos, of whom were the Gephyraians, brought in among the Hellenes many arts when they settled in this land of Boeotia, and especially letters, which did not exist, as it appears to me, among the Hellenes before this time;
58. Kadmorekin etorritako pheniziar haiek (eta euren artean gephyrarrak) aipatu herrialdean finkatzean, beste ezagutza batzuen artean, alfabetoa ekarri zuten Heladera, ordurarte heleniarrentzat ezezaguna zena, uste dudanez.