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 Boeotia, of another in Cyprus, of another in AEtolia, of another in Asia near Chius; and Erythia Acra was a promontory in Libya, and Erythraeum a promontory in Crete, and Erythros a place near Tybur, and Erythini a City or Country in Paphlagonia:  and the name Erythea or Erythrae was given to the Island Gades, peopled by Phoenicians.  So Solinus, [100] In capite Baeticae insula a continenti septingentis passibus memoratur quam Tyrii a rubro mari profecti Erytheam, Poeni 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 Erythraeo mari ferebantur. Among the Phoenicians 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 Phoenicia 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 Phoenicia, that is, in all the Sea-coasts of Syria from Egypt to Zidon; and by calling themselves Phoenicians in the language of Syria, instead of Erythreans, gave the name of Phoenicia to all that Sea-coast, and to that only.  So Strabo:  [104] [Greek:  Hoi men gar kai tous Phoinikas, kai tous Sidonious tous kath’ hemas apoikous einai ton en toi Okeanoi phasi, prostithentes kai dia ti Phoinikes ekalounto, hoti kai he thalatta erythra.] Alii referunt Phoenices & Sidonios nostros esse colonos eorum qui sunt in Oceano, addentes illos ideo vocari Phoenices [puniceos]_ quod mare rubrum sit._

Strabo [105] mentioning the first men who left the Sea-coasts, and ventured out into the deep, and undertook long Voyages, names Bacchus, Hercules, Jason, Ulysses and Menelaus; and saith that the Dominion of Minos over the Sea was celebrated, and the Navigation of the Phoenicians who went beyond the Pillars of Hercules, and built Cities there, and in the middle of the Sea-coasts of Afric, presently after the war of Troy.  These Phoenicians [106] were the Tyrians, who at that time built Carthage in Afric, and Carteia in Spain, and Gades in the Island of that name without the Straights; and gave the name of Hercules to their chief