Famous mariners, Roguish, numerous trinkets bringing in black ships. Footnote 1470: Odys. θ. 162. Hymn. in Apoll. 397. Footnote 1471: Odyss. ο. 414, seq. That from the beginning, moreover, they obtained celebrity for their piratical arts, the story of Eunæos, in the Odyssey, and the rape of Io, as related by Herodotus,[1472] clearly show. Nay, Thucydides himself, in a recapitulation of the ancient history of Greece, observes that the islanders, chiefly Carians and Phœnicians, were no less renowned than their neighbours for piracy.[1473] The Phœnicians, however, would appear to have led the way, and, probably, by their successes excited the emulation of the Carians, who drove them from the island, and adopted the business of piracy in their stead.[1474] Footnote 1472: L. i. c. 2. See, also, Philost. Vit. Apollon. iii. 24. p. 114. Footnote 1473: Thucyd. i. 8. Tournefort, Voyage, i. 154. The Phocians, also, about the time when they founded Marseilles, distinguished themselves at once by their mercantile and piratical habits. Namque Phocenses exiguitate ac macie terræ coacti studiosius mare quam terras exercuêre: piscando, mercando plerumque etiam latrocinio maris quod illi temporibus gloriæ habebatur, vitam tolerabant. Justin. 43. 3. Footnote 1474: Conon. Dieg. 47. ap. Phot. Cod. 141. a. 20. Hudson, ad Thucyd. t. i. p. 302. See in Scheffer, De Re Militiâ Navali, Addenda, Lib. Prim. p. 313, a list of the nations who anciently exercised the piratical art. -----