Sīdon — Lewis & Short
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, = *sidw/n, w=nos and o/nos, 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.