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_,