from home by his father Telamon, and there built Salamis:  and he and his Posterity Reigned there ’till Evagoras, the last of them, was conquered by the Persians, in the twelfth year of Artaxerxes Mnemon.  Certainly this Tyrian Hercules could be no older than the Trojan war, because the Tyrians did not begin to navigate the Mediterranean ’till after that war:  for Homer and Hesiod knew nothing of this navigation, and the Tyrian Hercules went to the coasts of Spain, and was buried in Gades:  so Arnobius [114]; Tyrius Hercules sepultus in finibus Hispaniae:  and Mela, speaking of the Temple of Hercules in Gades, saith, Cur sanctum sit ossa ejus ibi sepulta efficiunt. Carthage [115] paid tenths to this Hercules, and sent their payments yearly to Tyre:  and thence it’s probable that this Hercules went to the coast of Afric, as well as to that of Spain, and by his discoveries prepared the way to Dido:  Orosius [116] and others tell us that he built Capsa there. Josephus tells of an earlier Hercules, to whom Hiram built a Temple at Tyre:  and perhaps there might be also an earlier Hercules of Tyre, who set on foot their trade on the Red Sea in the days of David or Solomon.

Tatian, in his book against the Greeks, relates, that amongst the Phoenicians flourished three ancient Historians, Theodotus, Hysicrates and Mochus, who all of them delivered in their histories, translated into Greek_ by Latus, under which of the Kings happened the rapture of Europa; the voyage of Menelaus into Phoenicia; and the league and friendship between Solomon and Hiram, when Hiram gave his daughter to Solomon, and furnished him with timber for building the Temple:  and that the same is affirmed by Menander of Pergamus_. Josephus [117] lets us know that the Annals of the Tyrians, from the days of Abibalus and Hiram, Kings of Tyre, were extant in his days; and that Menander of Pergamus translated them into Greek, and that Hiram’s friendship to Solomon, and assistance in building the Temple, was mentioned in them; and that the Temple was founded in the eleventh year of Hiram:  and by the testimony of Menander and the ancient Phoenician historians, the rapture of Europa, and by consequence the coming of her brother Cadmus into Greece, happened within the time of the Reigns of the Kings of Tyre delivered in these histories; and therefore not before the Reign of Abibalus, the first of them, nor before the Reign of King David his contemporary.  The voyage of Menelaus