Herodotus [153] tells us, that the Phoenicians who came with Cadmus brought many doctrines into Greece:  for amongst those Phoenicians were a sort of men called Curetes, who were skilled in the Arts and Sciences of Phoenicia, above other men, and [154] settled some in Phrygia, where they were called Corybantes; some in Crete, where they were called Idaei Dactyli; some in Rhodes, where they were called Telchines; some in Samothrace, where they were called Cabiri; some in Euboea, where, before the invention of iron, they wrought in copper, in a city thence called Chalcis some in Lemnos, where they assisted Vulcan; and some in Imbrus, and other places:  and a considerable number of them settled in AEtolia, which was thence called the country of the Curetes; until AEtolus the son of Endymion, having slain Apis King of Sicyon, fled thither, and by the assistance of his father invaded it, and from his own name called it AEtolia:  and by the assistance of these artificers, Cadmus found out gold in the mountain Pangaeus in Thrace, and copper at Thebes; whence copper ore is still called Cadmia.  Where they settled they wrought first in copper, ’till iron was invented, and then in iron; and when they had made themselves armour, they danced in it at the sacrifices with tumult and clamour, and bells, and pipes, and drums, and swords, with which they struck upon one another’s armour, in musical times, appearing seized with a divine fury; and this is reckoned the original of music in Greece: so Solinus [155] Studium musicum inde coeptum cum Idaei Dactyli modulos crepitu & tinnitu aeris deprehensos in versificum ordinem transtulissent:  and [156] Isidorus, Studium musicum ab Idaeis Dactylis coeptum. Apollo and the Muses were two Generations later. Clemens [157] calls the Idaei Dactyli barbarous, that is strangers; and saith, that they reputed the first wise men, to whom both the letters which they call Ephesian, and the invention of musical rhymes are referred:  it seems that when the Phoenician letters, ascribed to Cadmus, were brought into Greece, they were at the same time brought into Phrygia and Crete, by the Curetes; who settled in those countries, and called them Ephesian, from the city Ephesus, where they were first taught.  The Curetes, by their manufacturing copper and iron, and making swords, and armour, and edged tools for hewing and carving of wood, brought into Europe a new way of fighting; and gave Minos an opportunity of building a Fleet, and gaining the dominion of the seas; and set on foot the trades of Smiths and Carpenters in Greece, which are the foundation of manual trades:  the [158] fleet of Minos was without