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Apollodorus, Library (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book 3 (search)
this, Pausanias followed Herodotus, who tells us that the Phoenician colonists of Thasos discovered wonderful gold mines there, which the historian had visited （Hdt. 6.46ff.）, and that they had founded a sanctuary of Herakles in the island （Hdt. 2.44）. Herodotus also （Hdt. 7.91） represents Cilix as a son of the Phoenician Agenor, and he tells us （Hdt. 4.147） that Cadmus, son of Agenor, left a Phoenician colony in the island of Thera. Diodorus Siculus reports （Diod. 5.59.2ff.） that Cadmus, son of Agenor, planted a Phoenician colony in Rhodes, and that the descendants of the colonists continued to hold the hereditary priesthood of Poseidon, whose worship had been instituted by Cadmus. He mentions also that in the sanctuary of Athena at Lindus, in Rhodes, there was a tripod of ancient style bearing a Phoenician inscription. The statement has been confirmed in rec