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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: [Greek: Tauten ektisen heis ton epanelthonton
ap' Erythras thalasses Pheugadon]: _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 _Phoenicians_, 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 _Phoenicians_, who sacrificed men to _Saturn_, and the
_Telchines_ being repulsed by _Pho