[136] That is, Children of the Sun. They were seven in number, Cercaphus, Actis, Macareus, Tenages, Triopes, Phaethon, and Ochimus, born of the Sun and of a nymph, or, according to others, of a heroine named Rhodus.
[137] Il. ii. 656.
[138] Hippodamus of Miletus.
[139] Naples.
[140] Majorca.
[141] Negropont.
[142] Called light-armed probably from the use of the sling, common among the Rhodians, as it was also among the Cretans. The use of the sling tends to prove the Rhodian origin of the inhabitants of the Balearic islands. The Athenian expedition to Sicily (Thucyd. vi. 43) was accompanied by 700 slingers from Rhodes.
[143] Strabo here omits to mention the Rhodian origin of Agrigentum and Gela in Sicily.
[144] Il. ii. 668.
[145] Od. vii. 61.