Phoenicians

But the Phoenicians do not tell the same story about Io as the Persians.

The Persian learned men say that the Phoenicians were the cause of the dispute.

As these stood about the stern of the ship bargaining for the wares they liked, the Phoenicians incited one another to set upon them.

And the islanders especially were pirates, being Carians and Phoenicians.

and in the case of the Ionians, when their power had advanced to a high pitch, Cyrus and the Persian kingdom, having subdued Croesus and all within the Halys to the sea, marched against them, and reduced to bondage their cities on the mainland, as Darius afterwards did even the islands, conquering them by means of the fleet of the Phoenicians.

and took and destroyed in all two hundred triremes of the Phoenicians.

And which — Greeks or the most licentious of the Phoenicians?

As a certain Ionian mode prevailed, and a Dorian and another Phrygian and a Lydian, so now the music of the Aradians prevails, and the strummings of the Phoenicians please you, and you have especially loved this rhythm, as others the spondaic;

For among the Egyptians and Phoenicians and certain other barbarians the type of the statues is not the same, as it is, I suppose, among the Greeks, but very different;

it was not known, therefore, that I had killed him, but as soon as I had done so I went to a ship and besought the owners, who were Phoenicians, to take me on board and set me in Pylos or in Elis where the Epeans rule, giving them as much spoil as satisfied them.

"Now to this place there came some cunning traders from Phoenicia (for the Phoenicians are great mariners) in a ship which they had freighted with trinkets of all kinds.

The Phoenicians stayed a whole year till they had loaded their ship with much precious merchandise, and then, when they had got freight enough, they sent to tell the woman.

Hence no doubt the proverb, Cuckoo!

The cuckoo was king of Egypt and of the whole of Phoenicia.

When he called out cuckoo, all the Phoenicians hurried to the fields to reap their wheat and their barley.

" But some say the Phoenicians and the Syrians were the first to devise letters.

it was the work of cunning artificers in Sidon, and had been brought into port by Phoenicians from beyond the sea [ pontos], who had made a present of it to Thoas.

After he had taken over the government of the city, which had been reduced to a state of barbarism and, because it was ruled by Phoenicians, was neither hospitable to the Greeks nor acquainted with the arts, nor possessed of a trading-port or harbor, Evagoras remedied all these defects and, besides, acquired much additional territory, surrounded it all with new walls and built triremes, and with o …

and that, after his other descendants had lost the throne, my father, Evagoras, won it back again by undergoing the greatest dangers, and wrought so great a change that Phoenicians no longer rule over Salaminians, while they, to whom it belonged in the beginning, are today in possession of the kingdom?

But we find, even in the Commentaries on Human Antiquities, that the human race has gradually grown beyond measure, while the Aborigines, or wanderers, or exiles, or any glory-seekers occupy lands — as the Scythians occupied the Parthian lands, as the Temenidae the Peloponnese, as the Athenians Asia, as the Phrygians Italy and the Phoenicians Africa — while there are also solemn migrations, which …

The Scythians overflow the Persians, the Phoenicians belch forth into Africa, the Phrygians bring forth the Romans, the Chaldaean seed is brought up into Egypt;