The word, Semones, signifies half men, as being descended from an immortal and a mortal. […] Ha brought men from a savage to a civilized state. […] This Bacchus is supposed, by many learned men, to be Moses. […] It is recorded that 360,000 men were employed in building it, during the space of twenty years. […] Three successive, severe, and dreadful winters, will announce its approach to the children of men.