was betwixt them; for they sent mutual problems to one another, with
a desire to have them unriddled by each other; wherein Solomon was
superior to Hirom, as he was wiser than he in other respects: and many
of the epistles that passed between them are still preserved among the
Tyrians. Now, that this may not depend on my bare word, I will produce
for a witness Dius, one that is believed to have written the Phoenician
History after an accurate manner. This Dius, therefore, writes thus, in
his Histories of the Phoenicians: "Upon the death of Abibalus, his son
Hirom took the kingdom. This king raised banks at the eastern parts
of the city, and enlarged it; he also joined the temple of Jupiter
Olympius, which stood before in an island by itself, to the city, by
raising a causeway between them, and adorned that temple with donations
of gold. He moreover went up to Libanus, and had timber cut down for the
building of temples. They say further, that Solomon, when he was king
of Jerusalem, sent problems to Hirom to be solved, and desired he would
send others back for him to solve, and that he who could not solve the
problems proposed to him should pay money to him that solved them. And
when Hirom had agreed to the proposals, but was not able to solve the
problems, he was obliged to pay a great deal of money, as a penalty
for the same. As also they relate, that one OEabdemon, a man of Tyre, did
solve the problems, and propose others which Solomon could not solve,
upon which he was obliged to repay a great deal of money to Hirom."
These things are attested to by Dius, and confirm what we have said upon
the same subjects before.

18. And now I shall add Menander the Ephesian, as an additional witness.
This Menander wrote the Acts that were done both by the Greeks and
Barbarians, under every one of the Tyrian kings, and had taken much
pains to learn their history out of their own records. Now when he was
writing about those kings that had reigned at Tyre, he came to Hirom,
and says thus: "Upon the death of Abibalus, his son Hirom took the
kingdom; he lived fifty-three years, and reigned thirty-four. He raised
a bank on that called the Broad Place, and dedicated that golden pillar
which is in Jupiter's temple; he also went and cut down timber from the
mountain called Libanus, and got timber Of cedar for the roofs of
the temples. He also pulled down the old temples, and built new ones;
besides this, he consecrated the temples of Her