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But the Phoenician colonisation must have taken place rather on account of the situation and the harbour than on account of the products. From Sicily and North Africa the tide of emigration naturally and easily flowed on into Sardinia, which is distant, from the former about 150 and from the latter about 115 miles.
Accordingly they settled in Cyprus at a very early date and remained there long after the Greeks had also established themselves on its shores; for we know from inscriptions and coins that Phoenician kings reigned at Citium, the Chittim of the Hebrews, down to the time of Alexander the Great. Naturally the Semitic colonists brought their gods with them from the mother-land.
"We understand that," replied Herhor; "hence we have no thought of attacking Assyria. But Phoenicia." "What harm will it be to you," asked Beroes, "if the Assyrian robber squeezes the Phoenician thief? Your merchants and ours will gain by such action. But if ye want Phoenicians, let them settle on your shores. I am sure that the richest and most adroit of them would flee from Assyrian conquest."
We heard of Cynoegirus, the strong jawed man, who, having lost his two hands in battle, seized and held a Persian galley with his teeth, and of Cadmus the Phoenician, who sowed a dragon's teeth as though they were beans and gathered his harvest in the shape of a host of armed men, who killed one another as they rose up from the ground.
The woman's tyrant smiled at it all, stopped his ears and pushed them all back with jests and laughter, promising Amytis the Median that Esther the Phoenician should be punished, and Esther the same of Amytis, that Parmys should have a handsomer set of jewels than Parisatys, and Parisatys a more costly one than Parmys, but finding it impossible to get rid of these importunate petitioners, he blew a little golden whistle.
Princes of both Hebrew states, of the Phoenician and the Philistine cities and even of Damascus, had all relied at one time or another on Egypt, and behind their combinations for defence and their individual revolts Assyria had felt the power on the Nile.
We have already mentioned the Phoenician station subsequently called Punicum and the two Hellenic stations of Pyrgi and Alsium.
Theodore Bent, whose death is so great a loss to all interested in such matters, have shown almost beyond question that Zimbabwe was once an inland Phoenician city, or at the least a city whose inhabitants were of a race which practised Phoenician customs and worshipped the Phoenician deities. Beyond this all is conjecture.
Although now, owing to the march of events, the island of Cyprus is out of the way and seldom visited, it was once otherwise. For in days of old it occupied a favoured position between the countries then foremost in the arts of civilisation. In those days Cyprus was a centre of Phoenician enterprise.
"Perhaps; but how does this concern us?" inquired Ramses. "Very much. Thou, O lord, art listening to Phoenician counsels; but our Jews have learned that Phoenicia wants to raise a war between Egypt and Assyria. Even their first bankers and merchants have bound themselves by dreadful oaths to raise it." "Why should they want war?" inquired the prince, with apparent indifference.
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