Justin, in his 18th book, tells us:  A rege Ascaloniorum expugnati Sidonii navibus appulsi Tyron urbem ante annum * * Trojanae cladis condiderunt And Strabo, [89] that Aradus was built by the men who fled from Zidon__.  Hence [90] Isaiah calls Tyre the daughter of Zidon_, the inhabitants of the Isle whom the Merchants of Zidon have replenished_:  and [91] Solomon in the beginning of his Reign calls the People of Tyre Zidonians. My Servants, saith he, in a Message to Hiram King of Tyre, shall be with thy Servants, and unto thee will I give hire for thy Servants according to all that thou desirest:  for thou knowest that there is not among us any that can skill to hew timber like the Zidonians__.  The new Inhabitants of Tyre had not yet lost the name of Zidonians, nor had the old Inhabitants, if there were any considerable number of them, gained the reputation of the new ones for skill in hewing of timber, as they would have done had navigation been long in use at Tyre.  The Artificers who came from Zidon were not dead, and the flight of the Zidonians was in the Reign of David, and by consequence in the beginning of the Reign of Abibalus the father of Hiram, and the first King of Tyre mentioned in History. David in the twelfth year of his Reign conquered Edom, as above, and made some of the Edomites, and chiefly the Merchants and Seamen, fly from the Red Sea to the Philistims upon the Mediterranean, where they fortified Azoth.  For [92] Stephanus tells us:  [Greek:  Tauten ektisen heis ton epanelthonton ap’ Erythras thalasses Pheugadon]:  One of the Fugitives from the Red Sea built Azoth:  that is, a Prince of Edom, who fled from David, fortified Azoth for the Philistims against him.  The Philistims were now grown very strong, by the access of the Edomites and Shepherds, and by their assistance invaded and took Zidon, that being a town very convenient for the Merchants who fled from the Red Sea:  and then did the Zidonians fly by Sea to Tyre and Aradus, and to other havens in Asia Minor, Greece, and Libya, with which, by means of their trade, they had been acquainted before; the great wars and victories of David their enemy, prompting them to fly by Sea:  for [93] they went with a great multitude, not to seek Europa as was pretended, but to seek new Seats, and therefore fled from their enemies:  and when some of them fled under Cadmus and his brothers to Cilicia, Asia minor, and Greece; others fled under other Commanders to seek new Seats in Libya, and there built many walled towns, as Nonnus [94] affirms:  and their leader was also there called Cadmus, which word signifies an eastern