[100] Which forbade the concentration of power necessary to great conquests. Phoenicia was not one state, it was a confederacy of states; so, for the same reason, Greece, admirably calculated to resist, was ill fitted to invade.
[101] For the dates of these migrations, see Fast. Hell., vol. i.
[102] To a much later period in the progress of this work I reserve a somewhat elaborate view of the history of Sicily.
[103] Pausanias, in corroboration of this fact, observes, that Periboea, the daughter of Alcathous, was sent with Theseus with tribute into Crete.
[104] When, according to Pausanias, it changed its manners and its language.
[105] In length fifty-two geographical miles, and about twenty-eight to thirty-two broad.
[106] A council of five presided over the business of the oracle, composed of families who traced their descent from Deucalion.
[107] Great grandson to Antiochus, son of Hercules.—Pausanias, l. 2, c. 4.
[108] But at Argos, at least, the name, though not the substance, of the kingly government was extant as late as the Persian war.
[109] Those who meant to take part in the athletic exercises were required to attend at Olympia thirty days previous to the games, for preparation and practice.