1048. The _Edomites_ are conquered and dispersed by _David_, and some of them fly into _Egypt_ with their young King _Hadad_. Others fly to the _Persian Gulph_ with their Commander _Oannes_; and others from the _Red Sea_ to the coast of the _Mediterranean_, and fortify _Azoth_ against _David_, and take _Zidon_; and the _Zidonians_ who fled from them build _Tyre_ and _Aradus_, and make _Abibalus_ King of _Tyre_. These _Edomites_ carry to all places their Arts and Sciences; amongst which were their Navigation, Astronomy, and Letters; for in _Idumæa_ they had Constellations and Letters before the days of _Job_, who mentions them: and there _Moses_ learnt to write the Law in a book. These _Edomites_ who fled to the _Mediterranean_, translating the word _Erythræa_ into that of _Phoenicia_, give the name of _Phoenicians_ to themselves, and that of _Phoenicia_ to all the sea-coasts of _Palestine_ from _Azoth_ to _Zidon_. And hence came the tradition of the _Persians_, and of the _Phoenicians_ themselves, mentioned by _Herodotus_, that the _Phoenicians_ came originally from the _Red Sea_, and presently undertook long voyages on the _Mediterranean_.
1047. _Acrisius_ marries _Eurydice_, the daughter of _Lacedæmon_ and _Sparta_. The _Phoenician_ mariners who fled from the _Red Sea_, being used to long voyages for the sake of traffic, begin the like voyages on the _Mediterranean_ from _Zidon_; and sailing as far as _Greece_, carry away _Io_ the daughter of _Inachus_, who with other _Grecian_ women came to their ships to buy their merchandize. The _Greek Seas_ begin to be infested with Pyrates.
1046. The _Syrians_ of _Zobah_ and _Damascus_ are conquered by _David_. _Nyctimus_, the son of _Lycaon_, reigns in _Arcadia_. _Deucalion_ still alive.
1045. Many of the _Phoenicians_ and _Syrians_ fleeing from _Zidon_ and from _David_, come under the conduct of _Cadmus_, _Cilix_, _Phoenix_, _Membliarius_, _Nycteus_, _Thasus_, _Atymnus_, and other Captains, into _Asia minor_, _Crete_, _Greece_, and _Libya_; and introduce Letters, Music, Poetry, the _Octaeteris_, Metals and their Fabrication, and other Arts, Sciences and Customs of the _Phoenicians_. At this time _Cranaus_ the successor of _Cecrops_ Reigned in _Attica_, and in his Reign and the beginning of the Reign of _Nyctimus_, the _Greeks_ place the flood of _Deucalion_. This flood was succeeded by four Ages or Generations of men, in the first of which _Chiron_ the son of _Saturn_ and _Philyra_ was born, and the last of which according to _Hesiod_ ended with the _Trojan_ War; and so places the Destruction of _Troy_ four Generations or about 140 years later than that flood, and the coming of _Cadmus_, reckoning with the ancients three Generations to an hundred years. With these _Phoenicians_ came a sort of men skilled in the Religious Mysteries, Arts, and Sciences of _Phoenicia_, and settled in several places under the names of _Curetes_, _Corybantes_, _Telchines_, and _Idæi Dactyli_.