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 SUMMARY OF THE HISTORY OF CYPRUS. 95 town of Kition. 1 They are included in the stock of Japhet and in the family of Javan, the eponymous ancestor of the lonians, an appella- tion under which the Asiatics in- cluded the whole of the Greek tribes. The Bible generalized this name of Kittim, applying it to all the insular and peninsular population of the race. 2 " Again, a mutual sense of their original identity appears to have existed between the Greeks of Hellas and the inhabitants of Cyprus. Of course those heroic genealogies must not be literally accepted which ascribe the founda- tion of Salamis to the Achaean Teucer, the brother of Ajax ; that of Aipeia, the first site of Soloi, to the Theseids, Demophon and Acamas ; that of Kurion to Argive colonists, and generally the occupa- tion of the island as a whole to the Greeks of Agamemnon's army, and especially to the Arcadians of Agapenor, who would thus have founded the ancient temple of Paphos. 3 In either case, whether the Greeks or the Phoenicians were the first to establish them- selves in the island, all these traditions taken together make ft 1 Genesis x. 4 and 5 ; JOSEPHUS, Ant. Jud. i. vi. i. 2 JEREMIAH ii. 10. EZEKIEL xxvii. 6. JOSEPHUS, Ant. Jud. i. vi. i. 3 HERODOTUS, v. 13 ; vii. 90 ; THEO- POMPUS, fragm. cxi. ; STRABO, xvi. vi. 3 ; F[G 72- _ Cvpriol inscription .. .1 bronze PLUTARCH, Solon, 26; PAUSAMAS, VII. V. 2. frngnent found at Pali. From I>? Luyncs.