Sidonian
adjective
relating to, coming from, or living in the ancient or present-day city of Sidon.
Sidonian
American
[sahy-dohn-ee-uhn]
/ saɪˈdoʊn i ən /
adjective
noun
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Sidonians
plural
sidonian
British
/ saɪˈdəʊnɪən /
adjective
noun
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Now midmost of the city-walls Æneas doth she lead, And shows him the Sidonian wealth, the city's guarded ways; And now she falls to speech, and now amidst a word she stays.
From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by William Morris
The camp in the centre, exactly on the east of the city, was occupied by the main army; Belisarius's large tent of blue Sidonian silk, with its purple standard, towered in the middle.
From A Struggle for Rome, Vol. 2 (of 3) by Felix Dahn
Thou hast destroyed thyself and me together, O my sister, and the Sidonian lords and people, and this thy city.
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
The prow of the Sidonian rushed past them.
From A Victor of Salamis by William Stearns Davis
In the Sidonian Harbor, seven ships were hastily manned, the chains were let down, and the crews made a dash for the open sea.
From The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great by Robert H. Fuller
The primogeniture of the Sidonians was afterwards explained to mean that the origin of their city, Sidon, belonged to the oldest period.
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Max Duncker
It was properly a slip of sea coast, which lay within the jurisdiction of the Tyrians and Sidonians, and signifies Ora Regia; or, according to the language of the country, the coast of the Anakim.
From A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) by Jacob Bryant
It is the work of Vulcan, which to me The Hero Phædimus imparted, King Of the Sidonians, when, on my return, Beneath his roof I lodg’d.
From The Odyssey of Homer by William Cowper
Thus the sea, so rich in islands, the long but proportionately narrow basin which lay before the Sidonians, Giblites and Arvadites, would soon attract to longer voyages the fishermen and navigators of the coast.
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI) by Max Duncker
It is said of this person, that he first introduced the worship of the serpent: and this so early, that not only the Tyrians and Sidonians, but the Egyptians received it from him.
From A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) by Jacob Bryant
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