bout 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 _they were a _Spanish_ people who fled from the
_Ligures_ in _Italy__; he means the _Ligures_ [218] who opposed _Hercules_
when he returned from his expedition against _Geryon_ in _Spain_, and
endeavoured to pass the _Alps_ out of _Gaul_ into _Italy_. _Hercules_ that
year got into _Italy_, and made some conquests there, and founded the city
_Croton_; and [219] after winter, upon the arrival of his fleet from
_Erythra_ in _Spain_, sailed to _Sicily_, and there left the _Sicani_: for
_it was his custom to recruit his army with conquered people, and after
they had assisted him in making new conquests to reward them with new
seats_: this was the _Egyptian Hercules_, who had a potent fleet, and in
the days of _Solomon_ sailed to the _Straits_, and according to his custom
set up pillars there, and conquered _Geryon_, and returned back by _Italy_
and _Sicily_ to _Egypt_, and was by th