FROM CLAUDIUS lOLAUS TO HIEROCLES. 



CLAUDIUS lOLAUS. 



Claudius lolaus, whose name would seem to indicate that he was 

 of Roman origin', is quoted by Stephan of Byzantium under AStpos. 

 He wrote after the rebuilding of Caesarea^ by Herod and probably 

 belongs to the first century A. D,'. His work on Phoenicia seems 

 to have been a collection of historical and pseudo-historical notices. 

 Of Dor he writes^ : 



Koi KAavStos 'lovAcos ev y' ^olvlklkuiv " //.era Kataapetav Awpa Ketrat ftpa- 

 veiia 7roXi)(vr], ^olvlkmv avTrjv OLKOvvTOiv, ol 8ia to viroirtTpov twv tc aiytaXwv xai 

 TO Trop(j>vpas ydvi/AOv (rvveXOovre^, KaXia<; avTol^ wKoSofiyjaavTo kol TrepLftaXo/xe- 

 VOL ^dpaKa<;, ws VTr-qKovtv avTol<i to. t^s ipyaaLa<;, Tep.v6p.cvot ras TreVpas, 8ta tw 

 €$aLpovp.ev<j}V XiOatv to. Tei)(r} KarefSaXovTO, kol t^v tvopp.ov XV^W o^rajs [oidv] 

 re do'^aXws iOevTO, cttcovu/xov avTtjV rrj warpiw yXiaaarj Awp KaXovvTes- ot o 

 'EXXi^ves, X'^^piv ToS t^s <^cov^s €VTrpo(f>6pov, KaXelv dpKovvTa (1. apKOvvTai) Acopa 

 T^v TToAiv. KUL TLVC<; l(TTopovai A(j)pov Tov HoaeiBwvos olKiaTr)v avT7]<; yeyovcvui. 



"And Claudius lolaus in (Book) 3 of the Phoenikika: 'Next to 

 Caesarea lies Dor, a very small town inhabited by Phoenicians. 

 These settled here because of the somewhat rocky nature of the 

 beaches and the abundance of the purple-fish. At first they built 

 themselves cabins, about which they placed stakes. When their 

 business prospered, however, they split the rocks, and with the 

 stones thus set free they built city-walls, and made a harbor with 

 good and safe anchorage. They called the place in their native 

 tongue Dor. But the Gi-eeks, for the sake of its more pleasing 

 sound, agree to call the city Dora. And some make the statement 

 that Doros, the son of Poseidon, was its founder.'" 



It has already been suggested^ that the derivation of the name 

 from Poseidon's son is simjjly one of the early legends of the city* ; 



' Schwartz in Pauly-Wissowa's Real-Enz. Ill, 2728. 



2 This is indicated by his use of the name Caesarea in the passage quoted 

 below. 



" Pauly-Wissowa's Enz.. I.e.; Miiller, Fragm. hist, graec. IV, 363. 



■* Steph. Byz., ed. Meineke, p. 255, s.v, MJpog. 



5 Page 18. 



" This tradition seems to be the reason for the use of the Poseidon-like 

 head on some of the coins of Dor. 



