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the Philiftims,. their next neighbours and the enemies of David.GREEKs.And this flight gave occafion to the Philiftims to call many placesErythra,, in memory of their being Erythreans or Edomites, andof their coming from the Erythrean Sea; for Erythra was thename of a city in Ionia; of another in Libya; of another inLocris; of another in Bceotia; of another in Cyprus; of anotherin ^Etolia; of another in Alia near Chius; and Erythia Aerawas a promontory in Libya; and Erythraeum a promontory inCrete y and Erythros a place near Tybur; and Erythini a city oreountry in Paphlagonia : and the name Erythea or Erythras wasgiven to the llland Gades, peopled by Phoenicians. 80 Solinus,

" a In capite Baticce infula a continentifeptingentis paffibus memo-^sf™, c. 2?,i( ratur, quam Tyrii, a rubro mari profedli Erytheam, Pceni fudlin-'

" gud Gadir, idejl fepem, nominarunt? And Pliny, b concerning b P1 ^- *• 4-a little illand near it; " Erythia dicta ef,. quoniam lyrii, Aborigines“ eorum, orti ab Erythrao mari ferebantur? Among the Phce-nicians who came with Cadmus into Greece, there were c Ara- C Strabo ’hians, and d Erythreans, or inhabitants of the Red Sea, that is 1 - io - p- 447 -

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Edomites: and in Thrace there fettled a people who were cir-e. 57*.eumcifed, and called Odomantes ; that is, as forne think, Edo-mites. Edom, Erythra and Phoenicia, are names of the fameftgnification, the words denoting a red colour: which makes itprobable, that the Erythreans who fled from David fettled ingreat numbers in Phoenicia; that is, in all the fea-coafts of Syriafrom Egypt to Zidon ; and by calling themfelves Phoenicians inthe language of Syria, inftead of Erythreans, gave the name ofPhoenicia to all that fea-coaft, and to that only. So Strabo :

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e O l p.£v yyg xou thq $>oivixols, xou rag 'Sifo/mc rag m<? ry-%g, omoixxgsivoti tmv sv toj Qxsotvw n, r^oa7ihv}£c xou hot 7i §oivix£; sxolXsvJo,o~ 1 xou vxXotTjoi £iv(j(ia.. Alii referunt Phoenices C£f Sidonios nof-‘‘ Iros, ejfe colonos eorum qui funt in Oceano, addentes illos ideo vo-" cari Phoenices \_puniceos~\ quod mare rubrum fit?

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neration fhall be reckcned either at 30 or 33 years. For the taking of Troy was in the generaftonbefore Pygmalion, according to our amhor's f) Item. See § XVII. and note 7. 00 that fedhon.

* Strabo (p. 401) fpeaks of Arabisns who pafied over with Cadmus, but n.o where ot try-thrsans, unlcfs they be includet) in the genera! name of Phcenicians : which is the very thing inqueftien, Sir liaac Newton feems to h.,ve imagined, that Eretria in Euboea’ took iis nametrnrErythroeans fettled there by Cadmus : for witheut tiiis fuppoftion, tiie paflages to which b.erefers, in Herodotus and Strabo, are nothing to his purpoie.

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