_Bayer_: in the end of the year 1689, and beginning of the year 1690, its
Longitude was [Taurus]. 9°. 38'. 45", and North Latitude 6°. 7'. 56": and
the _Colurus Æquinoctiorum_ drawn though it, according to _Eudoxus_, cuts
the Ecliptic in [Taurus]. 6°. 58'. 57". In the head of _Cetus_ are two
Stars of the fourth Magnitude, called ν and ξ by _Bayer_: in the end of the
year 1689 their Longitudes were [Taurus]. 4°. 3'. 9". and [Taurus]. 3°. 7'.
37", and their South Latitudes 9°. 12'. 26". and 5°. 53'. 7"; and the
_Colurus Æquinoctiorum_ passing in the mid way between them, cuts the
Ecliptic in [Taurus]. 6°. 58'. 51". In the extreme flexure of _Eridanus_,
rightly delineated, is a Star of the fourth Magnitude, of late referred to
the breast of _Cetus_, and called ρ by _Bayer_; it is the only Star in
_Eridanus_ through which this _Colure_ can pass; its Longitude, in the end
of the year 1689, was [Aries]. 25°. 22'. 10". and South Latitude 25°. 15'.
50". and the _Colurus Æquinoctiorum_ passing through it, cuts the Ecliptic
in [Taurus]. 7°. 12'. 40". In the head of _Perseus_, rightly delineated, is
a Star of the fourth Magnitude, called τ by _Bayer_; the Longitude of this
Star, in the end of the year 1689, was [Taurus]. 23°. 25'. 30", and North
Latitude 34°. 20'. 12": and the _Colurus Æquinoctiorum_ passing through it,
cuts the Ecliptic in [Taurus]. 6°. 18'. 57". In the right hand of
_Perseus_, rightly delineated, is a Star of the fourth Magnitude, called η
by _Bayer_; its Longitude in the end of the year 1689, was [Taurus]. 24°.
25'. 27", and North Latitude 37°. 26'. 50": and the _Colurus Æquinoctiorum_
passing through it cuts the Ecliptic in [Taurus]. 4°. 56'. 40": and the
fifth part of the summ of the places in which these five _Colures_ cut the
Ecliptic, is [Taurus]. 6°. 29'. 15": and therefore the Great Circle which
in the Primitive Sphere according to _Eudoxus_, and by consequence in the
time of the _Argonautic_ Expedition, was the _Colurus Æquinoctiorum_
passing through the Stars above described; did in the end of the year 1689,
cut the Ecliptic in [Taurus]. 6°. 29'. 15": as nearly as we have been able
to determin by the Observations of the Ancients, which were but coarse.
In the middle of _Cancer_ is the _South Asellus_, a Star of the fourth
Magnitude, called by _Bayer_ δ; its Longitude in the end of the year 1689,
was [Leo]. 4°. 23'. 40". In the neck of _Hydrus_, rightly delineated, is a
Star of the fourth Magnitude, called δ by _Bayer_; its Longitude in the end
of the year 1689, was [Leo]. 5°. 59'. 3". Between the poop and mast of the
Ship _Argo_ is a Star of the third Magnitude, called ι by _Bayer_; its
Longitude in the end of that year, was [Leo]. 7°. 5'. 31". In _Sagitta_ is
a Star of the sixth Magnitude, called θ by _Bayer_; its Longitude in the
end of the same year 1689, was [Aquarius]. 6°. 29'. 53". In the middle of
_Capricorn_ is a Star of the fifth Magnitude, called η by _Bayer_; its
Longitude in the end of the same year was [Aquarius]. 8°. 25'. 55": and the
fifth part of the summ of the three first Longitudes, and of the
complements of the two last to 180 Degrees; is [Leo]. 6°. 28'. 46". This is
the new Longitude of the old _Colurus Solstitiorum_ passing through these
Stars. The same _Colurus_ passes also in the middle between the Stars η and
κ, of the fourth and fifth Magnitudes, in the neck of the _Swan_; being
distant from each about a Degree: it passeth also by the Star κ, of the
fourth Magnitude, in the right wing of the _Swan_; and by the Star ο, of
the fifth Magnitude, in the left hand of _Cepheus_, rightly delineated; and
by the Stars in the tail of the _South-Fish_; and is at right angles with
the _Colurus Æquinoctiorum_ found above: and so it hath all the characters,
of the _Colurus Solstitiorum_ rightly drawn.
The two _Colures_ therefore, which in the time of the _Argonautic_
Expedition cut the Ecliptic in the Cardinal Points, did in the end of the
year 1689 cut it in [Taurus]. 6°. 29'; [Leo]. 6°. 29'; [Scorpio]. 6°. 29';
and [Aquarius]. 6°. 29'; that is, at the distance of 1 Sign, 6 Degrees and
29 Minutes from the Cardinal Points of _Chiron_; as nearly as we have been
able to determin from the coarse observations of the Ancients: and
therefore the Cardinal Points, in the time between that Expedition and the
end of the year 1689, have gone back from those _Colures_ one Sign, 6
Degrees and 29 Minutes; which, after the rate of 72 years to a Degree,
answers to 2627 years. Count those years backwards from the end of the year
1689, or beginning of the year 1690, and the reckoning will place the
_Argonautic_ Expedition, about 43 years after the death of _Solomon_.
By the same method the place of any Star in the Primitive Sphere may
readily be found, counting backwards one Sign, 6°. 29'. from the Longitude
which it had in the end of the year of our Lord 1689. So the Longitude of
the first Star of _Aries_ in the end of the year 1689 was [Aries]. 28°.
51'. as above: count backward 1 Sign, 6°. 29'. and its Longitude, counted
from the Equinox in the middle of the Constellation of _Aries_, in the time
of the _Argonautic_ expedition, will be [Pisces]. 22°. 22': and by the same
way of arguing, the Longitude of the _Lucida Pleiadum_ in the time of the
_Argonautic_ Expedition will be [Aries]. 19°. 26'. 8": and the Longitude of
_Arcturus_ [Virgo]. 13°. 24'. 52": and so of any other Stars.
After the _Argonautic_ Expedition we hear no more of Astronomy 'till the
days of _Thales_: He [77] revived Astronomy, and wrote a book of the
Tropics and Equinoxes, and predicted Eclipses; and _Pliny_ [78] tells us,
that he determined the _Occasus Matutinus_ of the _Pleiades_ to be upon the
25th day after the Autumnal Equinox: and thence [79] _Petavius_ computes
the Longitude of the _Pleiades_ in [Aries]. 23°. 53': and by consequence
the _Lucida Pleiadum_ had, since the _Argonautic_ Expedition, moved from
the Equinox 4°. 26'. 52": and this motion, after the rate of 72 years to a
Degree, answers to 320 years: count these years back from the time in which
_Thales_ was a young man fit to apply himself to Astronomical Studies, that
is from about the 41st Olympiad, and the reckoning will place the
_Argonautic_ Expedition about 44 years after the death of _Solomon_, as
above: and in the days of _Thales_, the Solstices and Equinoxes, by this
reckoning, will have been in the middle of the eleventh Degrees of the
Signs. But _Thales_, in publishing his book about the Tropics and
Equinoxes, might lean a little to the opinion of former Astronomers, so as
to place them in the twelfth Degrees of the Signs.
_Meton_ and _Euctemon_, [80] in order to publish the Lunar Cycle of
nineteen years, observed the Summer Solstice in the year of _Nabonassar_
316, the year before the _Peloponnesian_ war began; and _Columella_ [81]
tells us that they placed it in the eighth Degree of _Cancer_, which is at
least seven Degrees backwarder than at first. Now the Equinox, after the
rate of a Degree in Seventy and two years, goes backwards seven Degrees in
504 years: count backwards those years from the 316th year of _Nabonassar_,
and the _Argonautic_ Expedition will fall upon the 44th year after the
death of _Solomon_, or thereabout, as above. And thus you see the truth of
what we cited above out of _Achilles Tatius_; viz. that some anciently
placed the Solstice in the eighth Degree of _Cancer_, others about the
twelfth Degree, and others about the fifteenth Degree thereof.
_Hipparchus_ the great Astronomer, comparing his own Observations with
those of former Astronomers, concluded first of any man, that the Equinoxes
had a motion backwards in respect of the fixt Stars: and his opinion was,
that they went backwards one Degree in about an hundred years. He made his
observations of the Equinoxes between the years of _Nabonassar_ 586 and
618: the middle year is 602, which is 286 years after the aforesaid
observation of _Meton_ and _Euctemon_; and in these years the Equinox must
have gone backwards four degrees, and so have been in the fourth Degree of
_Aries_ in the days of _Hipparchus_, and by consequence have then gone back
eleven Degrees since the _Argonautic_ Expedition; that is, in 1090 years,
according to the Chronology of the ancient _Greeks_ then in use: and this
is after the rate of about 99 years, or in the next round number an hundred
years to a Degree, as was then stated by _Hipparchus_. But it really went
back a Degree in seventy and two years, and eleven Degrees in 792 years:
count these 792 years backward from the year of _Nabonassar,_ 602, the year
from which we counted the 286 years, and the reckoning will place the
_Argonautic_ Expedition about 43 years after the death of _Solomon_. The
_Greeks_ have therefore made the _Argonautic_ Expedition about three
hundred years ancienter than the truth, and thereby given occasion to the
opinion of the great _Hipparchus_, that the Equinox went backward after the
rate of only a Degree in an hundred years.
_Hesiod_ tells us that sixty days after the winter Solstice the Star
_Arcturus_ rose just at Sunset: and thence it follows that _Hesiod_
flourished about an hundred years after the death of _Solomon_, or in the
Generation or Age next after the _Trojan_ war, as _Hesiod_ himself
declares.
From all these circumstances, grounded upon the coarse observations of the
ancient Astronomers, we may reckon it certain that the _Argonautic_
Expedition was not earlier than the Reign of _Solomon_: and if these
Astronomical arguments be added to the former arguments taken from the mean
length of the Reigns of Kings, according to the course of nature; from them
all we may safely conclude that the _Argonautic_ Expedition was after the
death of _Solomon_, and most probably that it was about 43 years after it.
The _Trojan_ War was one Generation later than that Expedition, as was said
above, several Captains of the _Greeks_ in that war being sons of the
_Argonauts_: and the ancient _Greeks_ reckoned _Memnon_ or _Amenophis_,
King of _Egypt_, to have Reigned in the times of that war, feigning him to
be the son of _Tithonus_ the elder brother of _Priam_, and in the end of
that war to have come from _Susa_ to the assistance of _Priam_. _Amenophis_
was therefore of the same age with the elder children of _Priam_, and was
with his army at _Susa_ in the last year of that war: and after he had
there finished the _Memnonia_, he might return into _Egypt_, and adorn it
with Buildings, and Obelisks, and Statues, and die there about 90 or 95
years after the death of _Solomon_; when he had determined and settled the
beginning of the new _Egyptian_ year of 365 days upon the Vernal Equinox,
so as to deserve the Monument above-mentioned in memory thereof.
_Rehoboam_ was born in the last year of King _David_, being 41 years old at
the Death of _Solomon_, 1 _Kings_ xiv. 21. and therefore his father
_Solomon_ was probably born in the 18th year of King _David's_ Reign, or
before: and two or three years before his Birth, _David_ besieged _Rabbah_
the Metropolis of the _Ammonites_, and committed adultery with _Bathsheba_:
and the year before this siege began, _David_ vanquished the _Ammonites_,
and their Confederates the _Syrians_ of _Zobah_, and _Rehob_, and _Ishtob_,
and _Maacah_, and _Damascus_, and extended his Dominion over all these
Nations as far as to the entring in of _Hamath_ and the River _Euphrates_:
and before this war began he smote _Moab_, and _Ammon_, and _Edom_, and
made the _Edomites_ fly, some of them into _Egypt_ with their King _Hadad_,
then a little child; and others to the _Philistims_, where they fortified
_Azoth_ against _Israel_; and others, I think, to the _Persian Gulph_, and
other places whither they could escape: and before this he had several
Battles with the _Philistims_: and all this was after the eighth year of
his Reign, in which he came from _Hebron_ to _Jerusalem_. We cannot err
therefore above two or three years, if we place this Victory over _Edom_ in
the eleventh or twelfth year of his Reign; and that over _Ammon_ and the
_Syrians_ in the fourteenth. After the flight of _Edom_, the King of _Edom_
grew up, and married _Tahaphenes_ or _Daphnis_, the sister of _Pharaoh_'s
Queen, and before the Death of _David_ had by her a son called _Genubah_,
and this son was brought up among the children of _Pharaoh_: and among
these children was the chief or _first born of her mother's children_, whom
_Solomon_ married in the beginning of his Reign; and her _little sister
who_ at that time _had no breasts_, and her _brother who_ then _sucked the
breasts of his mother_, _Cant._ vi. 9. and viii. 1, 8: and of about the
same Age with these children was _Sesac_ or _Sesostris_; for he became King
of _Egypt_ in the Reign of _Solomon_, 1 _Kings_ xi. 40; and before he began
to Reign he warred under his father, and whilst he was very young,
conquered _Arabia_, _Troglodytica_ and _Libya_, and then invaded
_Ethiopia_; and succeeding his father Reigned 'till the fifth year of
_Asa_: and therefore he was of about the same age with the children of
_Pharaoh_ above-mentioned; and might be one of them, and be born near the
end of _David_'s Reign, and be about 46 years old when he came out of
_Egypt_ with a great Army to invade the East: and by reason of his great
Conquests, he was celebrated in several Nations by several Names. The
_Chaldæans_ called him _Belus_, which in their Language signified _the
Lord_: the _Arabians_ called him _Bacchus_, which in their Language
signified _the great_: the _Phrygians_ and _Thracians_ called him
_Ma-fors_, _Mavors_, _Mars_, which signified _the valiant_: and thence the
_Amazons_, whom he carried from _Thrace_ and left at _Thermodon_, called
themselves the daughters of _Mars_. The _Egyptians_ before his Reign called
him their _Hero_ or _Hercules_; and after his death, by reason of his great
works done to the River _Nile_, dedicated that River to him, and Deified
him by its names _Sihor_, _Nilus_ and _Ægyptus_; and the _Greeks_ hearing
them lament _0 Sihor, Bou Sihor_, called him _Osiris_ and _Busiris_.
_Arrian_ [82] tells us that the _Arabians_ worshipped, only two Gods,
_Cœlus_ and _Dionysus_; and that they worshipped _Dionysus_ for the glory
of leading his Army into _India_. The _Dionysus_ of the _Arabians_ was
_Bacchus_, and all agree that _Bacchus_ was the same King of _Egypt_ with
_Osiris_: and the _Cœlus_, or _Uranus_, or _Jupiter Uranius_ of the
_Arabians_, I take to be the same King of _Egypt_ with His father _Ammon_,
according to the Poet:
_Quamvis Æthiopum populis, Arabumque beatis_
_Gentibus, atque Indis unus sit Jupiter Ammon._
I place the end of the Reign of _Sesac_ upon the fifth year of _Asa_,
because in that year _Asa_ became free from the Dominion of _Egypt_, so as
to be able to fortify _Judæa_, and raise that great Army with which he met
_Zerah_, and routed him. _Osiris_ was therefore slain in the fifth year of
_Asa_, by his brother _Japetus_, whom the _Egyptians_ called _Typhon_,
_Python_, and _Neptune_: and then the _Libyans_, under _Japetus_ and his
son _Atlas_, invaded _Egypt_, and raised that famous war between the Gods
and Giants, from whence the _Nile_ had the name of _Eridanus_: but _Orus_
the son of _Osiris_, by the assistance of the _Ethiopians_, prevailed, and
Reigned 'till the 15th year of _Asa_: and then the _Ethiopians_ under
_Zerah_ invaded _Egypt_, drowned _Orus_ in _Eridanus_, and were routed by
_Asa_, so that _Zerah_ could not recover himself. _Zerah_ was succeeded by
_Amenophis_, a youth of the Royal Family of the _Ethiopians_, and I think
the son of _Zerah_: but the People of the lower _Egypt_ revolted from him,
and set up _Osarsiphus_ over them, and called to their assistance a great
body of men from _Phœnicia_, I think a part of the Army of _Asa_; and
thereupon _Amenophis_, with the remains of his father's Army of
_Ethiopians_, retired from the lower _Egypt_ to _Memphis_, and there turned
the River _Nile_ into a new channel, under a new bridge which he built
between two Mountains; and at the same time he built and fortified that
City against _Osarsiphus_, calling it by his own name, _Amenoph_ or
_Memphis_: and then he retired into _Ethiopia_, and stayed there thirteen
years; and then came back with a great Army, and subdued the lower _Egypt_,
expelling the People which had been called in from _Phœnicia_: and this I
take to be the second expulsion of the Shepherds. Dr. _Castel_ [83] tells
us, that in _Coptic_ this City is called _Manphtha_; whence by contraction
came its Names _Moph_, _Noph_.
While _Amenophis_ staid in _Ethiopia_, _Egypt_ was in its greatest
distraction: and then it was, as I conceive, that the _Greeks_ hearing
thereof contrived the _Argonautic_ Expedition, and sent the flower of
_Greece_ in the Ship _Argo_ to persuade the Nations upon the Sea Coasts of
the _Euxine_ and _Mediterranean Seas_ to revolt from _Egypt_, and set up
for themselves, as the _Libyans_, _Ethiopians_ and _Jews_ had done before.
And this is a further argument for placing that Expedition about 43 years
after the Death of _Solomon_; this Period being in the middle of the
distraction of _Egypt_. _Amenophis_ might return from _Ethiopia_, and
conquer the lower _Egypt_ about eight years after that Expedition, and
having settled his Government over it, he might, for putting a stop to the
revolting of the eastern Nations, lead his Army into _Persia_, and leave
_Proteus_ at _Memphis_ to govern _Egypt_ in his absence, and stay some time
at _Susa_, and build the _Memnonia_, fortifying that City, as the
Metropolis of his Dominion in those parts.
_Androgeus_ the son of _Minos_, upon his overcoming in the _Athenæa_, or
quadrennial Games at _Athens_ in his youth, was perfidiously slain out of
envy: and _Minos_ thereupon made war upon the _Athenians_, and compelled
them to send every eighth year to _Crete_ seven beardless Youths, and as
many young Virgins, to be given as a reward to him that should get the
Victory in the like Games instituted in _Crete_ in honour of _Androgeus_.
These Games seem to have been celebrated in the beginning of the
_Octaeteris_, and the _Athenæa_ in the beginning of the _Tetraeteris_, then
brought into _Crete_ and _Greece_ by the _Phœnicians_ and upon the third
payment of the tribute of children, that is, about seventeen years after
the said war was at an end, and about nineteen or twenty years after the
death of _Androgeus_, _Theseus_ became Victor, and returned from _Crete_
with _Ariadne_ the daughter of _Minos_; and coming to the Island _Naxus_ or
_Dia_, [84] _Ariadne_ was there relinquished by him, and taken up by
_Glaucus_, an _Egyptian_ Commander at Sea, and became the mistress of the
great _Bacchus_, who at that time returned from _India_ in Triumph; and
[85] by him she had two sons, _Phlyas_ and _Eumedon_, who were _Argonauts_.
This _Bacchus_ was caught in bed in _Phrygia_ with _Venus_ the mother of
_Æneas_, according [86] to _Homer_; just before he came over the
_Hellespont_, and invaded _Thrace_; and he married _Ariadne_ the daughter
of _Minos_, according to _Hesiod_ [87]: and therefore by the Testimony of
both _Homer_ and _Hesiod_, who wrote before the _Greeks_ and _Egyptians_
corrupted their Antiquities, this _Bacchus_ was one Generation older than
the _Argonauts_; and so being King of _Egypt_ at the same time with
_Sesostris_, they must be one and the same King: for they agree also in
their actions; _Bacchus_ invaded _India_ and _Greece_, and after he was
routed by the Army of _Perseus_, and the war was composed, the _Greeks_ did
him great honours, and built a Temple to him at _Argos_, and called it the
Temple of the _Cresian Bacchus_, because _Ariadne_ was buried in it, as
_Pausanias_ [88] relates. _Ariadne_ therefore died in the end of the war,
just before the return of _Sesostris_ into _Egypt_, that is, in the 14th
year of _Rehoboam_: She was taken from _Naxus_ upon the return of _Bacchus_
from _India_, and then became the Mistress of _Bacchus_, and accompanied
him in his Triumphs; and therefore the expedition of _Theseus_ to _Crete_,
and the death of his father _Ægeus_, was about nine or ten years after the
death of _Solomon_. _Theseus_ was then a beardless young man, suppose about
19 or 20 years old, and _Androgeus_ was slain about twenty years before,
being then about 20 or 22 years old; and his father _Minos_ might be about
25 years older, and so be born about the middle of _David_'s Reign, and be
about 70 years old when he pursued _Dædalus_ into _Sicily_: and _Europa_
and her brother _Cadmus_ might come into _Europe_, two or three years
before the birth of _Minos_.
_Justin_, in his 18th book, tells us: _A rege Ascaloniorum expugnati
Sidonii navibus appulsi Tyron urbem ante annum * * Trojanæ cladis
condiderunt_ And _Strabo_, [89] that _Aradus was built by the men who fled
from _Zidon__. Hence [90] _Isaiah_ calls _Tyre_ _the daughter of _Zidon_,
the inhabitants of the Isle whom the Merchants of _Zidon_ have
replenished_: and [91] _Solomon_ in the beginning of his Reign calls the
People of _Tyre_ _Zidonians_. _My Servants_, saith he, in a Message to
_Hiram_ King of _Tyre_, _shall be with thy Servants, and unto thee will I
give hire for thy Servants according to all that thou desirest: for thou
knowest that there is not among us any that can skill to hew timber like
the _Zidonians__. The new Inhabitants of _Tyre_ had not yet lost the name
of _Zidonians_, nor had the old Inhabitants, if there were any considerable
number of them, gained the reputation of the new ones for skill in hewing
of timber, as they would have done had navigation been long in use at
_Tyre_. The Artificers who came from _Zidon_ were not dead, and the flight
of the _Zidonians_ was in the Reign of _David_, and by consequence in the
beginning of the Reign of _Abibalus_ the father of _Hiram_, and the first
King of _Tyre_ mentioned in History. _David_ in the twelfth year of his
Reign conquered _Edom_, as above, and made some of the _Edomites_, and
chiefly the Merchants and Seamen, fly from the _Red Sea_ to the
_Philistims_ upon the _Mediterranean_, where they fortified _Azoth_. For
[92] _Stephanus_ tells us: Ταυτην εκτισεν ‛εις των επανελθοντων απ' Ερυθρας
θαλασσης Φευγαδων: _One of the Fugitives from the Red Sea built_ Azoth:
that is, a Prince of _Edom_, who fled from _David_, fortified _Azoth_ for
the _Philistims_ against him. The _Philistims_ were now grown very strong,
by the access of the _Edomites_ and Shepherds, and by their assistance
invaded and took _Zidon_, that being a town very convenient for the
Merchants who fled from the _Red Sea_: and then did the _Zidonians_ fly by
Sea to _Tyre_ and _Aradus_, and to other havens in _Asia Minor_, _Greece_,
and _Libya_, with which, by means of their trade, they had been acquainted
before; the great wars and victories of _David_ their enemy, prompting them
to fly by Sea: for [93] they went with a great multitude, not to seek
_Europa_ as was pretended, but to seek new Seats, and therefore fled from
their enemies: and when some of them fled under _Cadmus_ and his brothers
to _Cilicia_, _Asia minor_, and _Greece_; others fled under other
Commanders to seek new Seats in _Libya_, and there built many walled towns,
as _Nonnus_ [94] affirms: and their leader was also there called _Cadmus_,
which word signifies an eastern man, and his wife was called _Sithonis_ a
_Zidonian_. Many from those Cities went afterwards with the great _Bacchus_
in his Armies: and by these things, the taking of _Zidon_, and the flight
of the _Zidonians_ under _Abibalus_, _Cadmus_, _Cilix_, _Thasus_,
_Membliarius_, _Atymnus_, and other Captains, to _Tyre_, _Aradus_,
_Cilicia_, _Rhodes_, _Caria_, _Bithynia_, _Phrygia_, _Calliste_, _Thasus_,
_Samothrace_, _Crete_, _Greece_ and _Libya_, and the building of _Tyre_ and
_Thebes_, and beginning of the Reigns of _Abibalus_ and _Cadmus_ over those
Cities, are fixed upon the fifteenth or sixteenth year of _David_'s Reign,
or thereabout. By means of these Colonies of _Phœnicians_, the people of
_Caria_ learnt sea-affairs, in such small vessels with oars as were then in
use, and began to frequent the _Greek Seas_, and people some of the Islands
therein, before the Reign of _Minos_: for _Cadmus_, in coming to _Greece_,
arrived first at _Rhodes_, an Island upon the borders of _Caria_, and left
there a Colony of _Phœnicians_, who sacrificed men to _Saturn_, and the
_Telchines_ being repulsed by _Phoroneus_, retired from _Argos_ to _Rhodes_
with _Phorbas_, who purged the Island from Serpents; and _Triopas_, the son
of _Phorbas_, carried a Colony from _Rhodes_ to _Caria_, and there
possessed himself of a promontory, thence called _Triopium_: and by this
and such like Colonies _Caria_ was furnished with Shipping and Seamen, and
called [95] _Phœnice_. _Strabo_ and _Herodotus_ [96] tell us, that the
_Cares_ were called _Leleges_, and became subject to _Minos_, and lived
first in the Islands of the _Greek Seas_, and went thence into _Caria_, a
country possest before by some of the _Leleges_ and _Pelasgi_: whence it's
probable that when _Lelex_ and _Pelasgus_ came first into _Greece_ to seek
new Seats, they left part of their Colonies in _Caria_ and the neighbouring
Islands.