Sīdon, ō̆nis (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 Phoenician 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 Sīdŏnĭus , 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., Phoenician : 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 Boeotia, 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. : Sīdō̆nĭi , ōrum, m., the Sidonians , Sall. J. 78, 1; and poet., Phoenicians , Ov. F. 3, 108.—*
B Sīdōnĭ-cus , a, um, adj., of or belonging to Sidon , Sidonian , Sall. J. 78, 4.—
C Sīdō̆nis , ĭdis, adj. f. , Sidonian; poet., Phoenician : tellus, i. e. Phoenicia , Ov. M. 2, 840: concha, i. e. purple , id. ib. 10, 267.—More freq. subst., a Sidonian or Phoenician 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.