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clarke’s travels. 
liUsignan : wbo was deceived by the name of a neighbouring 
village, called Citi , from a.promontory at present bearing that 
appellation. Mariti places Citium between Salines and Lar- 
rieca, upon the authority of the manuscript before mentioned, 
and the ruins he there observed* It is, as he remarks,! of 
some importance to determine the true situation of a city once 
so renowned, on account of the celebrated men it produced, and 
the splendid actions of which it was the theatre. Yet it is sin¬ 
gular, that this writer makes no mention of its Phoenician origin. 
Concerning this fact, so well ascertained, a few observations 
may therefore suffice. 
Citium, from whose ruins we shall now consider both the 
modern towns of Salines and Larneca to have arisen, was 
founded, together with the city of Jjdpelhas , by a Phoenician 
king, of the name of Belus.J Its inhabitants, according to Cice¬ 
ro, were originally Phoenicia ns. $ Cyprus, from its vicinity 
to their country, and its commercial advantages, was the first 
island of the Mediterranean that came under this dominion. 
Eusebius observes, that Paphos, a Phoenician city in Cyprus, 
was built when Cadmus reigned at Thebes.|J It is moreover 
affirmed by the learned Bochart, ## that before the time of the 
Trojan war, Cinyras, king of Phoenicia, possessed this island of 
-Cyprus, having derived it from his ancestors. To this monarch, 
Agamemnon, according to Homer,(f was indebted for his breast 
plate. The cities of Urania and Idalium were also founded 
by the same people; the former received its name from Urania 
Venus, whose w orship, as related by Herodotus, was transferred 
to Cyprus by the Phoenicians from Ascalon.+j; Citium derived 
its name from the Hebrew’ appellation for the island Chetim ; 
the Chiitim , or Ciilim, of the Holy Scriptures-.^ It was famous 
* This is also the position assigned to it by Pocoeke. There is reason to believe il 
occupied a greater extent of territory, and reached from the port as far as Larneca. 
t Mariti’s Travels, vol. i. p. 53. 
4 There were many kings of Phceneeia who had this name; so called from Baal , 
signifying Lord. Hence ail the Phcenician Baalim had their denomination. See Gale’s- 
4 * Court of the Gentiles,' 1 ' b. i. e, 8. p. 47. 
§ See also Gale, p. 48 ; Cic. lib. iv. de Finibus; Laertes and Huidas cn the life of 
&eno; Grotius ; and Vosrdus de Philos. Sectis, lib. ii- c. 1. 
j! Euseb. Chronicon. in Num. 1089. 
** Bochart. Praef. ad. Canaan. 
If Horn. Iliad, A. Roch. Can. lib. i.c. 3. 
it There were four cities in Cyprus famous for the worship of Venus : 
“ Est Amaihus , est. celsa mihi Paphos , atqae Cyihera , 
Idqli<zqu& dooms’*-... .. 
$ This word, having a plural termination, is said to imply the descendants o* Cet?>. 
the son of Javan. Josephus places their establishment in the isle of Cyprus ; and the 
seventy interpreters render the word by KHTIOI, that is to say, the Kctii or Cetiu 
The valuable compilation of Dapper. (Description dcs Isles de V Art hip d.) written ori¬ 
ginally in the Flemish language, of which a French translation was published in folio* 
at Amsterdam, in J?&\ concentrates much valuable information upon.the subject 
