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Io. And Inachus, her father, sent her brothers and her relatives and Triptolemus and Argives with them in search of her, who, having searched everywhere, did not find her; but the Argive Iopolitans, knowing that Io had died in the land of Syria, came and remained there for a short time, knocking at each house of his and saying, 'May the soul of Io be saved.' And being instructed in a vision, they saw a heifer, saying to them in a human voice that, 'Here I am, I, Io.' And waking, they remained, marveling at the power of the vision. And considering that Io lay on that mountain, they built a temple for her and dwelled there on Mount Silpius, having also founded a city for themselves, which they called Iopolis; who were called Ionitai by those same Syrians until now. Therefore, the Syrian Antiochenes from that time when the Argives came and sought Io, make a memorial, knocking at that time each year at the houses of the Greeks until now. And for this reason the Argives themselves remained there in Syria, since they were ordered when they were leaving the land of the Argives by King Inachus, the father of Io, that 'If you do 30 not bring my daughter Io, do not return to the land of the Argives.' Therefore, those same Ionitai built a temple of Cronus there on Mount Silpius. And Libya, the daughter of Io and Picus, also called Zeus, was married to someone named Poseidon; from whom were born Agenor and Belus and Enyalius, three children. And Agenor and Belus came to Syria, themselves also in search of Io, if she were still alive, and of her brothers, if they existed; for they were their relatives. And having found no one, they returned. And Belus went to Egypt, and there, having married Sida, he had two sons, Aegyptus and Danaus. And Agenor, going to Phoenicia, married Tyro; and he founded a city, which he called Tyre in the name of his wife. He reigned there, then, and had sons by Tyro, Cadmus and Phoenix and Syrus and Cilix, and a daughter, whom he called Europa. And Agenor ruled those parts for 63 years. But the poets set forth Europa to be the daughter of Phoenix, the son of King Agenor, not agreeing with the chronographers. And Taurus, the king of Crete, having attacked the city of Tyre, fighting a naval battle, took that same city of Tyre in the evening; and having plundered it, he took many captives from the city; among whom he also took Europa, the daughter of King Agenor. But Agenor and his sons were warring at the border; at this time 31 Taurus, the king of Crete, suddenly attacked the country by sea; of which evening the Tyrians make a memorial until now, saying 'An evil evening'. And Taurus led Europa away to his own country, whom he also took as a wife, being a virgin and comely; and he called those parts Europeia in her name. From her he had a son, Minos, just as also Euripides the most wise poetically wrote, who says, 'Zeus, changed into a bull, seized Europa.' And that same king Taurus founded a great city on the same island of Crete, which he called Gortyna in the name of his mother from the race of Picus Zeus; and the fortune of the same city he called Callinice in the name of the girl sacrificed by him. And King Agenor, having come from the war in Tyre, and having learned of the sudden attack and seizure that happened by Taurus, immediately sent Cadmus for Europa with much money and an army. And when that same King Agenor was about to die, he ordered that all the land he had subjected be divided among his three sons. And Phoenix received Tyre and its territory, calling the land that came under him Phoenicia; and likewise also Syrus, calling the country that fell to his lot Syria, after his own name; and in the same way also Cilix the region falling to his lot

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Ἰώ. ὁ δὲ Ἴναχος, ὁ πατὴρ αὐτῆς, εἰς ἀναζήτησιν αὐτῆς ἔπεμψε τοὺς ἀδελφοὺς αὐτῆς καὶ τοὺς συγγενεῖς καὶ τὸν Τριπτόλεμον καὶ Ἀργείους μετ' αὐτῶν, οἵτινες πανταχοῦ ζητήσαντες οὐχ εὗρον αὐτήν· γνόντες δὲ οἱ Ἀργεῖοι Ἰωπολῖται ὅτι ἐτελεύτα εἰς γῆν Συρίαν ἡ Ἰώ, ἐλθόντες ἔμειναν ἐκεῖ πρὸς μικρόν, κρούοντες εἰς ἕκαστον οἶκον αὐτοῦ καὶ λέγοντες, Ψυχὴ Ἰοῦς σωζέσθω. καὶ ἐν ὁράματι χρηματισθέντες εἶδον δάμαλιν, λέγουσαν αὐτοῖς ἀνθρωπίνῃ φωνῇ ὅτι Ἐνταῦθά εἰμι ἐγὼ ἡ Ἰώ. καὶ διυπνισθέντες, τὴν τοῦ ὁράματος δύναμιν θαυμάζοντες ἔμειναν. καὶ λογισάμενοι ὅτι ἐν τῷ ὄρει αὐτῷ κεῖται ἡ Ἰώ, κτίσαντες αὐτῇ ἱερὸν ᾤκησαν ἐκεῖ εἰς τὸ Σίλπιον ὄρος, κτίσαντες καὶ πόλιν ἑαυτοῖς, ἣν ἐκάλεσαν Ἰώπολιν· οἵτινες ἐκλήθησαν παρὰ τοῖς αὐτοῖς Σύροις Ἰωνῖται ἕως τῆς νῦν. οἱ οὖν Σύροι Ἀντιοχεῖς ἐξ ἐκείνου τοῦ χρόνου ἀφ' οὗ οἱ Ἀργεῖοι ἐλθόντες ἐζήτησαν τὴν Ἰὼ ποιοῦσιν οὖν τὴν μνήμην, κρούοντες τῷ καιρῷ αὐτῷ κατ' ἔτος εἰς τοὺς οἴκους τῶν Ἑλλήνων ἕως ἄρτι. διὰ τοῦτο δὲ οἱ Ἀργεῖοι ἔμειναν αὐτοὶ ἐκεῖ εἰς τὴν Συρίαν, ἐπειδὴ ἐκελεύσθησαν ἀπολυόμενοι ἀπὸ τῆς Ἀργείων χώρας ὑπὸ τοῦ Ἰνάχου βασιλέως, τοῦ πατρὸς τῆς Ἰώ, ὅτι Εἰ μὴ 30 ἀγάγητε τὴν θυγατέρα μου Ἰώ, μὴ ὑποστρέψητε ἐπὶ τὴν Ἀργείων χώραν. ἔκτισαν οὖν ἐκεῖ οἱ αὐτοὶ Ἰωνῖται ἱερὸν Κρόνου εἰς τὸ Σίλπιον ὄρος. Ἡ δὲ Λιβύη, ἡ θυγάτηρ τῆς Ἰὼ καὶ τοῦ Πίκου τοῦ καὶ ∆ιός, ἐγαμήθη τινὶ ὀνόματι Ποσειδῶνι· ἐξ ὧν ἐνέχθησαν ὁ Ἀγήνωρ καὶ Βῆλος καὶ Ἐνυάλιος, παῖδες τρεῖς. ὁ δὲ Ἀγήνωρκαὶ Βῆλος κατέλαβον τὴν Συρίαν καὶ αὐτοὶ εἰς ἀναζήτησιν τῆς Ἰοῦς, εἰ ἔτι ζῇ, καὶ τῶν ἀδελφῶν αὐτῆς, εἴπερ εἰσίν· ἦσαν γὰρ αὐτῶν συγγενεῖς. καὶ μηδένα εὑρηκότες, ὑπέστρεψαν. καὶ ὁ μὲν Βῆλος ἐπὶ τὴν Αἴγυπτον ἀπῆλθε, κἀκεῖ γαμήσας τὴν Σίδα ἔσχεν υἱοὺς δύο, Αἴγυπτον καὶ ∆αναόν. ὁ δὲ Ἀγήνωρ ἐπὶ τὴν Φοινίκην ἐλθὼν ἠγάγετο τὴν Τυρώ· καὶ κτίζει πόλιν, ἣν ἐκάλεσε Τύρον εἰς ὄνομα τῆς ἑαυτοῦ γαμετῆς. ἐβασίλευσεν οὖν ἐκεῖ, καὶ ἔσχεν υἱοὺς ἐκ τῆς Τυρώ, τὸν Κάδμον καὶ τὸν Φοίνικα καὶ τὸν Σύρον καὶ τὸν Κίλικα, καὶ θυγατέρα, ἣν ἐκάλεσεν Εὐρώπην. καὶ βασιλεύει ὁ Ἀγήνωρ τῶν μερῶν ἐκείνων ἔτη ξγʹ. τὴν δὲ Εὐρώπην οἱ ποιηταὶ ἐξέθεντο θυγατέρα εἶναι τοῦ Φοίνικος, τοῦ υἱοῦ Ἀγήνορος βασιλέως, μὴ ὁμοφωνήσαντες τοῖς χρονογράφοις. ἐπιῤῥίψας δὲ τῇ πόλει Τύρῳ Ταῦρος ὁ τῆς Κρήτης βασιλεύς, ναυμαχίᾳ πολεμήσας παρέλαβε τὴν αὐτὴν Τύρον πόλιν ἑσπέρας· καὶ πραιδεύσας ἔλαβεν αἰχμαλώτους ἐκ τῆς πόλεως πολλούς· ἐν οἷς ἔλαβε καὶ τὴν Εὐρώπην, θυγατέρα τοῦ Ἀγήνορος βασιλέως. ὁ δὲ Ἀγήνωρ καὶ οἱ υἱοὶ αὐτοῦ ἐπολέμουν ἐπὶ τὸ λίμιτον· τοῦτο 31 Ταῦρος ὁ τῆς Κρήτης βασιλεὺς ἐξαίφνης ἐπέῤῥιψε τῇ χώρᾳ διὰ θαλάττης· ἧστινος ἑσπέρας μνήμην ποιοῦνται οἱ Τύριοι ἕως τῆς νῦν, λέγοντες Κακὴν ὀψινήν. ἀπήγαγε δὲ τὴν Εὐρώπην εἰς τὴν ἰδίαν πατρίδα ὁ Ταῦρος, ἥντινα καὶ γυναῖκα ἔλαβε, παρθένον οὖσαν καὶ εὐπρεπῆ· καὶ ἐκάλεσε τὰ μέρη ἐκεῖνα εἰς ὄνομα αὐτῆς Εὐρώπεια. ἐξ ἧς ἔσχεν υἱὸν τὸν Μίνω, καθὼς καὶ Εὐριπίδης ὁ σοφώτατος ποιητικῶς συνεγράψατο, ὅς φησι, Ζεὺς μεταβληθεὶς εἰς Ταῦρον τὴν Εὐρώπην ἥρπασεν. ἔκτισε δὲ ἐν τῇ αὐτῇ Κρήτῃ νήσῳ ὁ αὐτὸς Ταῦρος βασιλεὺς πόλιν μεγάλην, ἣν ἐκάλεσε Γόρτυναν εἰς ὄνομα τῆς αὐτοῦ μητρὸς τῆς ἐκ γένους Πίκου ∆ιός· τὴν δὲ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως τύχην ἐκάλεσε Καλλινίκην εἰς ὄνομα τῆς σφαγιασθείσης παρ' αὐτοῦ κόρης. ὁ δὲ Ἀγήνωρ βασιλεὺς ἐλθὼν ἐκ τοῦ πολέμου ἐν τῇ Τύρῳ, καὶ μαθὼν τὴν γενομένην παρὰ τοῦ Ταύρου ἐξαίφνης ἔφοδόν τε καὶ ἁρπαγήν, εὐθέως ἐξέπεμψε τὸν Κάδμον διὰ τὴν Εὐρώπην μετὰ χρημάτων πολλῶν καὶ στρατοῦ. μέλλων δὲ τελευτᾶν ὁ αὐτὸς βασιλεὺς Ἀγήνωρ διετάξατο πᾶσαν ἣν ὑπέταξε γῆν μερίσασθαι τοὺς τρεῖς αὐτοῦ υἱούς. καὶ ἔλαβεν ὁ Φοῖνιξ τὴν Τύρον καὶ τὴν αὐτῆς ἐνορίαν, καλέσας τὴν ὑπ' αὐτὸν γενομένην γῆν Φοινίκην· ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ ὁ Σύρος, εἰς τὸ ἴδιον ὄνομα καλέσας τὴν ἐπιλαχοῦσαν αὐτῷ χώραν Συρίαν· ὡσαύτως δὲ καὶ ὁ Κίλιξ τὸ ἐπιλαγχάνον αὐτῷ κλῖμα