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 SI'KKAD OF GliKKK SETTLKMKNTS. 277 inent of Paphos, Salamis, Kitium, and the other Grecian cities there planted, but there can be no doubt that they were poste- rior to this period, and that a considerable portion of the soil and trade of Cyprus thus passed from Phenicians to Greeks ; who on their part partially embraced and diffused the rites, sometimes cv;iel, sometimes voluptuous, embodied in the Phenician religion. 1 7n Cilicia, too, especially at Tarsus, the intrusion of Greek set- tiers appears to have gradually Hellenized a town originally Phe- uician and Assyrian ; contributing, along with the other Grecian settlements Phaselis, Aspendus, and Side on the southern coast cf Asia Minor, to narrow the Phenician range of adventure ia that direction. 2 Such was the manner in which the Phenicians found them- selves affected by the spread of Greek settlements ; and if the lonians of Asia Minor, when first conquered by Harpagus and the Persians, had followed the advice of the Prienean Bias to emigrate in a body, and found one great Pan-Ionic colony in the island of Sardinia, these early merchants would have experienced the like hinderance 3 carried still farther westward, perhaps, indeed, the whole subsequent history of Carthage might have been sensibly modified. But Iberia, and the golden region of Tartessus, remained comparatively little visited, and still less colonized, by the Greeks ; nor did it even become known to them nntil more than a century after their first settlements had been formed in Sicily. Easy as the voyage from Corinth to Cadiz may now appear to us, to a Greek of the seventh or sixth centu- ries B. c. it was a formidable undertaking. He was under the Apion. i 18 ; an allusion is to be found in Virgil, ^Eneid, i, 642, in the mouth of Dido. " Genitor turn Belus opimam Vastabat Cyprum, ct late ditione tenebat." (t. v.) 1 Respecting the worship at Salamis (in Cyprus) and Paphos, see Lac tant i, 21 ; Strabo, xiv, p. 683. Aradus 'Orat. Tarsens. ii, p. 20, ed. lleisk), and Herodotus makes Kilix brother cf Phoenix and son of Agenor (vii, 92). Phenician coins of the city of Tarsus arc found, of a date towards the end of the Persian empire: see Movers, Die P'i6nizier, i, p. 13.
 * Tarsus is mentioned by Dio Chrysostom as a colony from the Phenician
 * Herodot. i. 170.