The Phenician ships were by far the best in the fleets of the Persian kings. FOOTNOTES: [474] Eustath. ad "Odysseam," 4, 617. [475] Vol. i. p. 352. [476] De Luynes, "Essai sur la numismatique des satrapies," p. 69. [477] Above, p. 188. [478] Curt. 4, 8. Pliny ("Hist. Nat." 5, 17) puts the distance from the mainland at 700 paces (double paces). [479] On coins of Tyre of a later time we find two rocks, which indicate the position of the city. Ezekiel (xxvi. 4, 5) threatens that she shall be a naked rock in the sea for the spreading of nets. Joseph. "c. Apion," 8, 5, 3; Diod. 17, 46; Arrian, 2, 21, 23. Renan's view ("Mission de Phénicie," p. 546 ff.) on the Agenorion has been adopted; some others of his results appear to be uncertain. [480] Vol. i. 367; Menander in Joseph. "c. Apion." 1, 17, 18. [481] Joseph. "Antiq." 8, 13, 2. [482] Joseph. _loc. cit._ [483] In order to bring the reigns of Josephus into harmony with his total, the total, which is given twice, must be retained. Hence nothing remains but to replace, as Movers has already done, the three and six years given by Josephus for Balezor and Mutton by the eight and 25 years given by Syncellus. [484] On the identity of the names Acerbas, Sichaeus, Sicharbas, Sicharbaal, Serv. "ad Æneid," 1, 343; Movers, "Phoeniz." 2, 1, 355. [485] Justin, 18, 4. [486] Timaeus, fragm. 23, ed. Müller; Appian, "Rom. Hist." 8, 1. [487] Timaeus, fragm. 23, ed. Müller. [488] Vol. i. 371; Movers, "Phoeniz." 1, 609 ff. [489] Oros. 4, 22; Strabo, p. 832. [490] Sall. "Jug." 19. [491] The various statements about the year of the foundation of Carthage are collected in Müller, "Geograph. Græci min." 1, xix. It is impossible to fix the foundation more accurately than about the middle of the ninth century B.C. We may place it in the year 846 B.C. if we rest on the 143-2/3 years of Josephus from the building of the temple (according to our own date 990 B.C.), and the round sum given by Appian--that 700 years elapsed from the founding by Dido to the destruction of the city; "Rom. Hist." 8, 132. [492] Ezekiel xxvii. 9. [493] Renan, "Mission de Phénicie," p. 199. [494] Diod. 16, 41, 45; fragm. 23, ed. Bipont; cf. Justin. 18, 6. [495] Joseph. "Antiq." 14, 12, 4, 5; Curt. 4, 15. [496] Liv. 28, 37; Movers, "Phoeniz." 2, 1, 490 ff, 529 ff. [497] Servius, "ad Æneid." 1, 738. [498] Ezekiel xxviii. 2-17. [499] Psalm xlv. 9-15. Though it is doubtful whether there is any reference here to Tyre, the court-life of the Israelites was imitated from the Phenicians. [500] Hosea ix. 13. [501] Ezekiel xxvii. 4-7. [502] Strabo, pp. 754, 756. [503] Lucian, "De Syria dea," 3-5. [504] Renan, "Mission de Phénicie," p. 39 ff, 362. [505] Ceccaldi, "Le Monument de Sarba," Revue Archéolog. 1878. [506] Renan, "Mission de Phénicie," p. 60 ff. [507] Beulé, "Nachgrabungen zu Karthago," s. 98 ff (translation). [508] Gen. xxxv. 20. [509] Renan, _loc. cit._ 412 ff.