The _Zidonians_ being still possessed of the trade of the _Mediterranean_, as far westward as _Greece_ and _Libya_, and the trade of the _Red Sea_ being richer; the _Tyrians_ traded on the _Red Sea_ in conjunction with _Solomon_ and the Kings of _Judah_, 'till after the _Trojan_ war; and so also did the Merchants of _Aradus_, _Arvad_, or _Arpad_: for in the _Persian Gulph_ [97] were two Islands called _Tyre_ and _Aradus_, which had Temples like the _Phœnician_; and therefore the _Tyrians_ and _Aradians_ sailed thither, and beyond, to the Coasts of _India_, while the _Zidonians_ frequented the _Mediterranean_: and hence it is that _Homer_ celebrates _Zidon_, and makes no mention of _Tyre_. But at length, [98] in the Reign of _Jehoram_ King of _Judah_, _Edom_ revolted from the Dominion of _Judah_, and made themselves a King; and the trade of _Judah_ and _Tyre_ upon the _Red Sea_ being thereby interrupted, the _Tyrians_ built ships for merchandise upon the _Mediterranean_, and began there to make long Voyages to places not yet frequented by the _Zidonians_; some of them going to the coasts of _Afric_ beyond the _Syrtes_, and building _Adrymetum_, _Carthage_, _Leptis_, _Utica_, and _Capsa_; and others going to the Coasts of _Spain_, and building _Carteia_, _Gades_ and _Tartessus_; and others going further to the _Fortunate Islands_, and to _Britain_ and _Thule_. _Jehoram_ Reigned eight years, and the two last years was sick in his bowels, and before that sickness _Edom_ revolted, because of _Jehoram_'s wicked Reign: if we place that revolt about the middle of the first six years, it will fall upon the fifth year of _Pygmalion_ King of _Tyre_, and so was about twelve or fifteen years after the taking of _Troy_: and then, by reason of this revolt, the _Tyrians_ retired from the _Red Sea_, and began long Voyages upon the _Mediterranean_; for in the seventh year of _Pygmalion_, his Sister _Dido_ sailed to the Coast of _Afric_ beyond the _Syrtes_, and there built _Carthage_. This retiring of the _Tyrians_ from the _Red Sea_ to make long Voyages on the _Mediterranean_, together with the flight of the _Edomites_ from _David_ to the _Philistims_, gave occasion to the tradition both of the ancient _Persians_, and of the _Phœnicians_ themselves, that the _Phœnicians_ came originally from the _Red Sea_ to the coasts of the _Mediterranean_, and presently undertook long Voyages, as _Herodotus_ [99] relates: for _Herodotus_, in the beginning of his first book, relates that the _Phœnicians_ coming from the _Red Sea_ to the _Mediterranean_, and beginning to make long Voyages with _Egyptian_ and _Assyrian_ wares, among other places came to _Argos_, and having sold their wares, seized and carried away into _Egypt_ some of the _Grecian_ women who came to buy them; and amongst those women was _Io_ the daughter of _Inachus_. The _Phœnicians_ therefore came from the _Red Sea_, in the days of _Io_ and her brother _Phoroneus_ King of _Argos_, and by