but Minos having a potent fleet, sent many Colonies out of Crete, and peopled many of them; and particularly that the island Carpathus was first seized by the soldiers of Minos:  Syme lay waste and desolate ’till Triops came thither with a Colony under Chthonius:  Strongyle or Naxus was first inhabited by the Thracians in the days of Boreas, a little before the Argonautic Expedition:  Samsos was, at first desert, and inhabited only by a great multitude of terrible wild beasts, ’till Macareus peopled it, as he did also the islands Chius and Cos. Lesbos lay waste and desolate ’till Xanthus sailed thither with a Colony:  Tenedos lay desolate ’till Tennes, a little before the Trojan war, sailed thither from Troas. Aristaeus, who married Autonoe the daughter of Cadmus, carried a Colony from Thebes into Caea, an island not inhabited before:  the island Rhodes was at first called Ophiusa, being full of serpents, before Phorbas, a Prince of Argos, went thither, and made it habitable by destroying the serpents, which was about the end of Solomon’s Reign; in memory of which he is delineated in the heavens in the Constellation of Ophiuchus.  The discovery of this and some other islands made a report that they rose out of the Sea:  in Asia Delos emersit, & Hiera, & Anaphe, & Rhodus, saith [213] Ammianus:  and [214] Pliny; clarae jampridem insulae, Delos & Rhodos memoriae produntur enatae, postea minores, ultra Melon Anaphe, inter Lemnum & Hellespontum Nea, inter Lebedum & Teon Halone, &c.

Diodorus [215] tells us also, that the seven islands called AEolides, between Italy and Sicily, were desert and uninhabited ’till Lipparus and AEolus, a little before the Trojan war, went thither from Italy, and peopled them:  and that Malta and Gaulus or Gaudus on the other side of Sicily, were first peopled by Phoenicians; and so was Madera without the Straits:  and Homer writes that Ulysses found the Island Ogygia covered with wood, and uninhabited, except by Calypso and her maids, who lived in a cave without houses; and it is not likely that Great Britain and Ireland could be peopled before navigation was propagated beyond the Straits.

The Sicaneans were reputed the first inhabitants of Sicily, they built little Villages or Towns upon hills, and every Town had its own King; and by this means they spread over the country, before they formed themselves into larger governments with a common King:  Philistus [216] saith that they were transplanted into Sicily_ from the River Sicanus in Spain_; and Dionysius [217], that