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Sīdon , ō^nis (usu. ō, as in Greek; but in the derivatives
I.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,
A. Sīdŏ_nĭus , a, um, adj.
1. 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.—
2. 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.—
3. Carthaginian: “duces,” Sil. 1, 10: “miles,” id. 17, 213: “cuspis,” id. 5, 474.—
4. 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^nĭi , ōrum, m., the Sidonians, Sall. J. 78, 1; and poet., Phœnicians, Ov. F. 3, 108.—*
B. Sīdōnĭ-cus , a, um, adj., of or belonging to Sidon, Sidonian, Sall. J. 78, 4.—
C. Sīdō^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.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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