consequence at that time when _David_ conquered the _Edomites_, and made them fly every way from the _Red Sea_; some into _Egypt_ with their young King, and others to the _Philistims_ their next neighbours and the enemies of _David_. And this flight gave occasion to the _Philistims_ to call many places _Erythra_, in memory of their being _Erythreans_ or _Edomites_, and of their coming from the _Erythrean_ Sea; for _Erythra_ was the name of a City in _Ionia_, of another in _Libya_, of another in _Locris_, of another in _Bœotia_, of another in _Cyprus_, of another in _Ætolia_, of another in _Asia_ near _Chius_; and _Erythia Acra_ was a promontory in _Libya_, and _Erythræum_ a promontory in _Crete_, and _Erythros_ a place near _Tybur_, and _Erythini_ a City or Country in _Paphlagonia_: and the name _Erythea_ or _Erythræ_ was given to the Island _Gades_, peopled by _Phœnicians_. So _Solinus_, [100] _In capite Bæticæ insula a continenti septingentis passibus memoratur quam Tyrii a rubro mari profecti Erytheam, Pœni sua lingua Gadir, id est sepem nominarunt._ And _Pliny_, [101] concerning a little Island near it; _Erythia dicta est quoniam Tyrii Aborigines eorum, orti ab Erythræo mari ferebantur._ Among the _Phœnicians_ who came with _Cadmus_ into _Greece_, there were [102] _Arabians_, and [103] _Erythreans_ or Inhabitants of the _Red Sea_, that is _Edomites_; and in _Thrace_ there settled a People who were circumcised and called _Odomantes_, that is, as some think, _Edomites_. _Edom_, _Erythra_ and _Phœnicia_ are names of the same signification, the words denoting a red colour: which makes it probable that the _Erythreans_ who fled from _David_, settled in great numbers in _Phœnicia_, that is, in all the Sea-coasts of _Syria_ from _Egypt_ to _Zidon_; and by calling themselves _Phœnicians_ in the language of _Syria_, instead of _Erythreans_, gave the name of _Phœnicia_ to all that Sea-coast, and to that only. So _Strabo_: [104] ‛Οι μεν γαρ και τους Φοινικας, και τους Σιδονιους τους καθ' ‛ημας αποικους ειναι των εν τωι Ωκεανωι φασι, προστιθεντες και δια τι Φοινικες εκαλουντο, ‛οτι και ‛η θαλαττα ερυθρα. _Alii referunt Phœnices & Sidonios nostros esse colonos eorum qui sunt in Oceano, addentes illos ideo vocari Phœnices _[puniceos]_ quod mare rubrum sit._