d many cities with walls, and became possest
of all the territory between the two rivers _Liris_ and _Tibre__: and it is
to be understood that those cities had their Councils and _Prytanea_ after
the manner of the _Greeks_: for _Dionysius_ [211] tells us, that the new
Kingdom of _Rome_, as _Romulus_ left it, consisted of thirty Courts or
Councils, in thirty towns, each with the sacred fire kept in the
_Prytaneum_ of the Court, for the Senators who met there to perform Sacred
Rites, after the manner of the _Greeks_: _but when _Numa_ the successor of
_Romulus_ Reigned, he leaving the several fires in their own Courts,
instituted one common to them all at _Rome__: whence _Rome_ was not a
compleat city before the days of _Numa_.

When navigation was so far improved that the _Phoenicians_ began to leave
the sea-shore, and sail through the _Mediterranean_ by the help of the
stars, it may be presumed that they began to discover the islands of the
_Mediterranean_, and for the sake of trafic to sail as far as _Greece_: and
this was not long before they carried away _Io_ the daughter of _Inachus_,
from _Argos_. The _Cares_ first infested the _Greek_ seas with piracy, and
then _Minos_ the son of _Europa_ got up a potent fleet, and sent out
Colonies: for _Diodorus_ [212] tells us, that the _Cyclades_ islands, those
near _Crete_, were at first desolate and uninhabited; but _Minos_ having a
potent fleet, sent many Colonies out of _Crete_, and peopled many of them;
and particularly that the island _Carpathus_ was first seized by the
soldiers of _Minos_: _Syme_ lay waste and desolate 'till _Triops_ came
thither with a Colony under _Chthonius_: _Strongyle_ or _Naxus_ was first
inhabited by the _Thracians_ in the days of _Boreas_, a little before the
_Argonautic_ Expedition: _Samsos_ was, at first desert, and inhabited only
by a great multitude of terrible wild beasts, 'till _Macareus_ peopled it,
as he did also the islands _Chius_ and _Cos_. _Lesbos_ lay waste and
desolate 'till _Xanthus_ sailed thither with a Colony: _Tenedos_ lay
desolate 'till _Tennes_, a little before the _Trojan_ war, sailed thither
from _Troas_. _Aristaeus_, who married _Autonoe_ the daughter of _Cadmus_,
carried a Colony from _Thebes_ into _Caea_, an island not inhabited before:
the island _Rhodes_ was at first called _Ophiusa_, being full of serpents,
before _Phorbas_, a Prince of _Argos_, went thither, and made it habitable
by destroying the serpents, which was a