An historical survey of the astronomy of the ancients / by Sir George Cornewall Lewis.
- George Cornewall Lewis
- Date:
- 1862
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Credit: An historical survey of the astronomy of the ancients / by Sir George Cornewall Lewis. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![author of the Aristotelic Collection of Marvellous Reports, cites Phoenician histories as declaring that Utica was founded 287 years before Carthage. (17) If this comparative chronology is correct, the Phoenicians founded the distant colony of Gades before they founded the cities of Utica and Carthage, which lay on the African coast on the way to Gades. The foundation of Gades is placed by Mela at the time of the siege of Troy. Justin describes Gades as having been founded by the Tyrians, but as having been subsequently annexed by the Carthaginians to their Empire. (18) Its fidelity to Carthage seems to have been ambiguous ; for there was a party in it which was in traitorous correspondence with the Romans during the Second Punic War.(19) Strabo says that the Phoenicians occupied the productive district of Southern Spain, from a period earlier than Homer down to the time when it was taken from them by the Romans.(20) Their presence can be clearly traced westwards along the coast inhabited by the Bastuli, as far as the Pillars of Hercules, and from the Pillars along the Turdetanian coast as far as the Anas or Guadiana, or perhaps as far as the Sacred Promontory, the south-western extremity of Lusitania (Cape St. Vincent).(21) Ulysippo, the modern Lisbon, is treated by Greek legends as a foundation of Ulysses. This is a mere etymological my thus ; and the conjecture of Movers, derived from the occurrence of the termination -ippo in other proper names, that this is a Phoenician form, is probable. (22) Scylax, whose Periplus was composed about 340 B.C., mentions many factories of the Carthaginians to the west of the Pillars of Hercules, apparently on the European side.(23) But whatever (17) C. 134. (18) Mela, iii. 6; Justin, xliv. 5. (19) Livy, xxviii. 23, 30. (20) iii. 2, 14. (21) See Movers, Phonizier, vol. ii. p. 615—647. (22) lb. p. 639. (23) drro 'HpaKketow aTi]\a>v tu>v iv tj] ~Evpanrrj epnopia troWa Kapxrjdoviav Kai 7777X09 leal ir)<rip.p.vpides (cat neXayr), c. 1. The last words show that Scylax considered the ocean beyond the Pillars of Hercules as unknown. G G](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21015855_0463.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
