entered the service of Psammetichus in Egypt. Accordingly, we may assume that the Greek settlements in Cyprus were founded between Olymp. 20 and 40; and we cannot wonder that, one hundred and twenty years later, during the war of Darius Hystaspis, the Greek towns of Cyprus had already become great. The principal places, _Salamis_ and _Amathus_, were as purely Greek as the cities in Asia Minor; _Lapathos_ and others were smaller. In the time of Evagoras, after the Peloponnesian war, Salamis was the ruling city of the island, and in reality sovereign. _Soli_ is absurdly connected with Solon. In later times, Greeks and Phoenicians lived peaceably together in the island. _Citium_ was the capital of the Phoenicians, and the native place of the philosopher Zeno. We have no information about the race of the native Cyprians; but, under the predominating influence of the two ruling nations, they became partly Hellenised and partly Punicised. Cyprus is justly called by the ancients one of the most blessed countries in the world; there are but few parts of it which are unhealthy. Its rich copper mines and its timber were of particular importance to the ancients. PHOENICIA. The Phoenicians extended from the frontiers of the Philistines to those of Cilicia near Myriandros. It is an ancient tradition, that they had immigrated into that country from a distance, and this tradition is confirmed by its situation; it is quite clear that they cannot have been the original natives. Of the northern towns, it is quite certain, that they were colonies of those in the south. Would that we had their history, which was quite authentic up to a very remote period! They were a nation which had been pressed onward from the south towards the north. According to a tradition in Herodotus, they had come from the Red Sea, and according to another, from the Persian gulf. The latter of these, which has much engaged the attention of modern historians, is of no value at all. It would seem most probable, that they were one of those nations that were pressed onward by the emigration of the Hycsos. FOOTNOTES [1] _Hist. of Rome_, vol. i. p. 130. [2] “Not _Junia Norbana_. Laws with two qualifying adjectives always had two authors, but our law originated with L. Junius Norbanus.” According to a more recent view, the Norbani belonged to the Vibii, and the name _Junia_ in our law is derived from M. Junius Silanus, who was consul in A.D. 19.—ED. [3] _Hist. of Rome_, vol. i. p. 81, foll. [4] Sismondi, _Hist. des Republ. Italiennes_, i. p. 249; but he explains the name to mean _la grande côte_; it moreover belongs to the ninth century as a surname of Grimoald II.—ED. [5] _Hist. of Rome_, i. p. 194, note 560. [6] _Hist. of Rome_, vol. i. p. 389, foll.