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_ might be after the
destruction of _Troy_. _Solomon_ therefore Reigned in the times between the
raptures of _Europa_ and _Helena_, and _Europa_ and her brother _Cadmus_
flourished in the days or _David_. _Minos_,