II. 
42 CYPRUS. 
CHAP, upon the coast of Attica, from a Phoenician 
merchant became fomider of the Stoics, and had 
for his illustrious followers, Epictetus and Seneca. 
According to Plutarch, it was with the sword 
presented by a king of Citium that Alexander 
triumphed over Darius\ This weapon was held 
by him in such estimation, that he always wore 
it upon his person. The same author also 
informs us, that at the siege of Citium, Cimony 
son of Miltiacles, received the wound of which 
he died. It is quite uncertain when this city 
was destroyed. Mariti believes that event did 
not take place later than the beginning of the 
(l) The late Reverend and learned Dr. Henley, writing to the author 
upon the circumstance here noticed, makes the following remarks. 
" You mention," says he, " the sword presented to Alexander by the 
King of Citium. It is to be observed, that the prophecy oi Balaam 
closes with the following prediction : — ' Ships shall come from the coast 
o/Chittim (i. e. Citium), and shall afflict Assur, and shall afflict Eher, 
and he also shall perish for ever.' This prediction I propose hereafter 
more fully to illustrate ; but at present shall only observe, that the 
naval armament, by which Alexander was alone enabled to overcome 
Tyre and the whole power of the Persian empire by sea, was chiefly 
furnished to him from Cyprus, or Chittim, (See 1 Maccah.i. 1.) 'Audit 
happened, after that Alexander, the son of Philip the Macedonian, 
who CAME OUT OF THE LAND OF Chette'im, had smitten Darius, king of 
the Persians and Medes, that he reigned in his stead, the first over 
Greece. From not adverting to this historical fact, geographers have 
made a strange mistake, in supposing that Macedonia had been called 
Chittim; for ^nv«w, who has given a distinct account oi Alexander's 
maritime equipment, expressly mentions, tli •> the reinforcement 
from Cyprus consisted of one hundred and twenty ships, whilst from 
Macedonia he had but a single vessel. See Arrian. de Expedilione 
Alexandri, lib. ii. c. 20." 
