Chapter IV.—Zoroaster.

"Of this family there was born in due time a certain one, who took up with magical practices, by name Nebrod, who chose, giant-like, to devise things in opposition to God. Him the Greeks have called Zoroaster. He, after the deluge, being ambitious of sovereignty, and being a great magician, by magical arts compelled the world-guiding star of the wicked one who now rules, to the bestowal of the sovereignty as a gift from him. But he, ^[1110] being a prince, and having authority over him who compelled him, ^[1111] wrathfully poured out the fire of the kingdom, that he might both bring to allegiance, and might punish him who at first constrained him.