The Phoenician colony at Marseilles was probably in decline when, in B.C.

This plateau formed the seat of the ancient Carthage, the Phoenician colony which Dido had founded.

The Phoenician colony in Carthage had grown to be no mean rival of Rome's military power.

Nothing can be meaner than the present appearance of the old Phoenician colony, although its position as a

Three long years the inhabitants of the old Phoenician colony held out against the power of the new republic.

Till the arrival of the Phœnician colonies, that fertile country was inhabited by the Libyans, the most savage of mankind.

The tale of the Phoenician colony, conducted by Cadmus, and which founded Thebes in Boeotia, rests upon a different basis.

Boats bound for Tunis and Tripoli used to carry cargoes of raisins, the only export from this ancient Phoenician colony.

The most plausible opinion is that which attributes the honour of having imported the vine to the Phoenician colony who founded Marseilles.

That the old Phoenician colonies were included among the Liby-phoenicians, is shown by the designation of Hippo as a Liby-phoenician city (Liv.

Tyre in the course of time became the dominant city, and under her supremacy were founded the Phoenician colonies in Greece, Sicily, Africa, and Spain.

Marseilles, the ancient Phoenician colony, once the rival and then the successor to Carthage, was undoubtedly at the head of the commercial cities of France.

Their system of writing, however, was carried into every corner of the vast Mediterranean and every Phoenician colony became a center for its further distribution.