(adj.adj.) : Sīdon, ōnis (usu. ō, as in Greek; but in the derivatives
* 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
* Sīdŏ_nĭus, a, um, adj.
* 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.
* Sīdōnĭ-cus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Sidon, Sidonian, Sall. J. 78, 4.
* Sīdōnis, 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.
* 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.: Sīdōnĭi, ōrum, m., the Sidonians, Sall. J. 78, 1; and poet., Phoenicians, Ov. F. 3, 108.—*