Note 1345 — Chapter XII · REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY

“Goth & Magoth, aeternaliter conclusit. Vndecim trib. Hebraeorum, montib. aeternaliter circumcinxit, de quibus omnibus in versibus plenius dicemus atque iocundius” (Pantheon, pars 11, Herold’s edit., 1559, col. 262; for the poetic elaboration mentioned, see cols. 266–267; both of these passages of the Pantheon are omitted in the editions of Migne and of the Mon. Germ. hist.). Marinelli (La geogr., 1882, p. 493; Scritti minori, vol. i, [1908?], p. 316, note 2, p. 415, note 2) knew of the passage in the Pantheon just quoted at second hand through a paraphrase in Giusto Grion, I nobili fatti di Alessandro Magno: Romanzo storico tradotto dal francese nel buon secolo ..., Rome, 1872, p. cxxxii; not having the original text of the Pantheon at hand, Marinelli was in doubt as to whether the error in the statement that there were eleven tribes was to be imputed to Grion or to Godfrey. Marinelli cites this passage together with a passage from Albertus Magnus’ Compendium theologicae veritatis, VII, 10, as evidence of the fact that the ten tribes of the Jews were associated with Gog and Magog as early as the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. See also the prophecy in the Pantheon within a longer prophecy of the Sibyl: “Et exurgent ab Aquilonae spurcissimae gentes, quas Alexander rex inclusit, Goth videlicet & Magoth. Haec duodecim [sic] regna, quorum numerus est sicut arena maris” (pars 10, Herold’s edit., col. 257; Mon. Germ. hist., Scriptores, vol. xxii, p. 147). See also above, p. 391, note 130, p. 470, note 147.