_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 _Phœnicians_, 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 _Phœnicians_, who sacrificed men to _Saturn_, and the _Telchines_ being repulsed by _Phoroneus_, retired from _Argos_ to _Rhodes_ with _Phorbas_, who purged the Island from Serpents; and _Triopas_, the son of _Phorbas_, carried a Colony from _Rhodes_ to _Caria_, and there possessed himself of a promontory, thence called _Triopium_: and by this and such like Colonies _Caria_ was furnished with Shipping and Seamen, and called [95] _Phœnice_. _Strabo_ and _Herodotus_ [96] tell us, that the _Cares_ were called _Leleges_, and became subject to _Minos_, and lived first in the Islands of the _Greek Seas_, and went thence into _Caria_, a country possest before by some of the _Leleges_ and _Pelasgi_: whence it's probable that when _Lelex_ and _Pelasgus_ came first into _Greece_ to seek new Seats, they left part of their Colonies in _Caria_ and the neighbouring Islands.