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Tet the wretched Sardian paid a long price for his ambidextrous hexameter.

From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 by Fowler, F. G. (Francis George)

Duillius next and Catulus were seen, Whose daring navies plough'd the billowy green That laves Pelorus and the Sardian shore, And dyed the rolling waves with Punic gore.

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas

Thus Varro categorizes the Sibyls, and besides these we hear of a Hebrew, a Chaldaean, a Babylonian, an Egyptian, a Sardian Sibyl, and some others.

From Holidays in Eastern France by Betham-Edwards, Matilda