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|Text=[[File:woodhouse_1025.jpg|thumb|link={{filepath:woodhouse_1025.jpg}}]][[Σιδών]], -ῶνος, ἡ.

<b class="b2">Of Sidon</b>, adj.: Σιδώνιος.
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|lshtext=<b>Sīdon</b>: ō&#774;nis (usu. ō, as in Greek; [[but]] in the derivatives<br /><b>I</b> [[common]]. A [[later]] collat. form Sīdōnĭa, ae, Just. 11, 10, 8; cf.: Babylonia, Lacedaemonia, etc.), f, = [[Σιδών]], ῶνος and όνος, Heb. and Phoen. a [[very]] [[ancient]] and [[celebrated]] Phœnician [[city]], the [[mother]]-[[city]] of [[Tyre]], [[now]] Saida, Mel. 1, 12, 2; Plin. 5, 19, 17, § 76; Just. 18, 3, 4; Cic. Att. 9, 9, 2; Luc. 3, 217 al.; abl. Sidone, Lucr. 6, 585; Ov. M. 4, 571; cf. acc. Sīdōna Verg A. 1, 619; abl. Sīdŏne, Sil. 8, 438.—Hence,<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Sīdŏ&#772;nĭus, a, um, adj.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Of or belonging to [[Sidon]], Sidonian: [[urbs]], i. e. [[Sidon]], Verg. A. 4, 545; cf. [[moenia]], Ov. P. 1, 3, 77: [[amor]], i. e. Jupiter's for [[Europa]] (of [[Sidon]]), Mart. 7, 32.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Poet., Phœnician: [[raptus]], i. e. of [[Europa]], Stat. Th. 1, 5: rates, Ov. Tr. 4, 3, 2: [[hospes]], i. e. [[Cadmus]], id. M. 3, 129: [[Dido]], Verg. A. 11, 74: nautae, Hor. Epod. 16, 59: [[murex]], Tib. 3, 3, 18; cf. [[ostrum]], Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 26; so, [[vestis]], Prop. 2, 16 (3, 8), 55: [[chlamys]], Verg. A. 4, 137: [[palla]], Prop. 4 (5), 9, 47: [[mitra]], id. 2, 29 (3, 27), 15 et saep.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>3</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Carthaginian: duces, Sil. 1, 10: [[miles]], id. 17, 213: [[cuspis]], id. 5, 474.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>4</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Because [[Thebes]], in Bœotia, [[was]] said to [[have]] been founded by [[Cadmus]], Theban: Sidoniae comites, i. e. Ismenides, Ov. M. 4, 542: turres, Stat. Th. 7, 443.—Subst plur.: Sīdō&#774;nĭi, ōrum, m., the Sidonians, Sall. J. 78, 1; and [[poet]]., Phœnicians, Ov. F. 3, 108.—*<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Sīdōnĭ-cus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to [[Sidon]], Sidonian, Sall. J. 78, 4.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> Sīdō&#774;nis, ĭdis, adj. f., Sidonian; [[poet]]., Phœnician: [[tellus]], i. e. Phœnicia, Ov. M. 2, 840: [[concha]], i. e. [[purple]], id. ib. 10, 267.—More freq. subst., a Sidonian or Phœnician [[woman]]; of [[Europa]], Ov. A. A. 3, 252; id. F. 5, 610; 5, 617; Stat. Th. 9, 334.—Of [[Dido]], Ov. M. 14, 80.—Of [[Anna]], Ov. F. 3, 649; Sil. 8, 70: Sīdōnĭda, id. 8, 194.
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