[448] Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, XIII. 12, § 2, 3.
[449] Ælian, History of Animals, V. lvi.—Eustathius, Comment. on Dionysius Periegetes, 508, 198, edit. Bernhardy.
[450] Strabo, XIV. 6.—Pliny, Natural History, XXXIV. 2.
[451] Virgil, Æneid, I. 415.—Statius, Thebais, V. 61.
[452] Strabo, X. 4.
[453] Polybius, XIII. 8.
[454] Cretan mercenaries are found in the service of Flamininus in 557 (Titus Livius, XXXIII. 3), in that of Antiochus in 564 (Titus Livius, XXXVII. 40), in that of Perseus in 583 (Titus Livius, XLII. 51), and in the service of Rome in 633.
[455] Iliad, II. 656.
[456] Polybius, XXX. 7, year of Rome 590.
[457] Strabo, XIV. 2. The town of Rhoda in Spain, establishments in the Baleares, Gela in Sicily, Sybaris and Palæopolis in Italy, were Rhodian colonies.