ii Aborigines eorum,
orti ab Erythraeo mari ferebantur._ Among the _Phoenicians_ who came with
_Cadmus_ into _Greece_, there were [102] _Arabians_, and [103] _Erythreans_
or Inhabitants of the _Red Sea_, that is _Edomites_; and in _Thrace_ there
settled a People who were circumcised and called _Odomantes_, that is, as
some think, _Edomites_. _Edom_, _Erythra_ and _Phoenicia_ are names of the
same signification, the words denoting a red colour: which makes it
probable that the _Erythreans_ who fled from _David_, settled in great
numbers in _Phoenicia_, that is, in all the Sea-coasts of _Syria_ from
_Egypt_ to _Zidon_; and by calling themselves _Phoenicians_ in the language
of _Syria_, instead of _Erythreans_, gave the name of _Phoenicia_ to all
that Sea-coast, and to that only. So _Strabo_: [104] [Greek: Hoi men gar
kai tous Phoinikas, kai tous Sidonious tous kath' hemas apoikous einai ton
en toi Okeanoi phasi, prostithentes kai dia ti Phoinikes ekalounto, hoti
kai he thalatta erythra.] _Alii referunt Phoenices & Sidonios nostros esse
colonos eorum qui sunt in Oceano, addentes illos ideo vocari Phoenices
_[puniceos]_ quod mare rubrum sit._

_Strabo_ [105] mentioning the first men who left the Sea-coasts, and
ventured out into the deep, and undertook long Voyages, names _Bacchus_,
_Hercules_, _Jason_, _Ulysses_ and _Menelaus_; and saith that the Dominion
of _Minos_ over the Sea was celebrated, and the Navigation of the
_Phoenicians_ who went beyond the Pillars of _Hercules_, and built Cities
there, and in the middle of the Sea-coasts of _Afric_, presently after the
war of _Troy_. These _Phoenicians_ [106] were the _Tyrians_, who at that
time built _Carthage_ in _Afric_, and _Carteia_ in _Spain_, and _Gades_ in
the Island of that name without the _Straights_; and gave the name of
_Hercules_ to their chief Leader, because of his labours and success, and
that of _Heraclea_ to the city _Carteia_ which he built. So _Strabo_: [107]
[Greek: Ekpleousin oun ek tes hemeteras thalattes eis ten exo, dexion esti
touto; kai pros auto Kalpe [Karteia]] [108] [Greek: polis en tettarakonta
stadiois axiologos kai palaia, naustathmon pote genomene ton Iberon; enioi
de kai Erakleous ktisma legousin auten, hon esti kai Timosthenes; hos Phesi
kai Erakleian onomazesthai to palaion; deiknysthai te megan peribolon, kai
neosoikous.] _Mons Calpe ad dextram est e nostro mari foras navigantibus, &
ad quadraginta inde stadia urbs Carteia vetusta ac memor