composed, the _Greeks_ did
him great honours, and built a Temple to him at _Argos_, and called it the
Temple of the _Cresian Bacchus_, because _Ariadne_ was buried in it, as
_Pausanias_ [88] relates. _Ariadne_ therefore died in the end of the war,
just before the return of _Sesostris_ into _Egypt_, that is, in the 14th
year of _Rehoboam_: She was taken from _Naxus_ upon the return of _Bacchus_
from _India_, and then became the Mistress of _Bacchus_, and accompanied
him in his Triumphs; and therefore the expedition of _Theseus_ to _Crete_,
and the death of his father _AEgeus_, was about nine or ten years after the
death of _Solomon_. _Theseus_ was then a beardless young man, suppose about
19 or 20 years old, and _Androgeus_ was slain about twenty years before,
being then about 20 or 22 years old; and his father _Minos_ might be about
25 years older, and so be born about the middle of _David_'s Reign, and be
about 70 years old when he pursued _Daedalus_ into _Sicily_: and _Europa_
and her brother _Cadmus_ might come into _Europe_, two or three years
before the birth of _Minos_.

_Justin_, in his 18th book, tells us: _A rege Ascaloniorum expugnati
Sidonii navibus appulsi Tyron urbem ante annum * * Trojanae cladis
condiderunt_ And _Strabo_, [89] that _Aradus was built by the men who fled
from _Zidon__. Hence [90] _Isaiah_ calls _Tyre_ _the daughter of _Zidon_,
the inhabitants of the Isle whom the Merchants of _Zidon_ have
replenished_: and [91] _Solomon_ in the beginning of his Reign calls the
People of _Tyre_ _Zidonians_. _My Servants_, saith he, in a Message to
_Hiram_ King of _Tyre_, _shall be with thy Servants, and unto thee will I
give hire for thy Servants according to all that thou desirest: for thou
knowest that there is not among us any that can skill to hew timber like
the _Zidonians__. The new Inhabitants of _Tyre_ had not yet lost the name
of _Zidonians_, nor had the old Inhabitants, if there were any considerable
number of them, gained the reputation of the new ones for skill in hewing
of timber, as they would have done had navigation been long in use at
_Tyre_. The Artificers who came from _Zidon_ were not dead, and the flight
of the _Zidonians_ was in the Reign of _David_, and by consequence in the
beginning of the Reign of _Abibalus_ the father of _Hiram_, and the first
King of _Tyre_ mentioned in History. _David_ in the twelfth year of his
Reign conquered _Edom_, as above, and made some of the _Edomites_, an