Note 18 — Chapter II · THE MEDITERRANEAN COLONIZATION OF AFRICA
Reading edition
The national name for the Phoenicians was χnā (Khna, Kinah, Kinahni, ‘Canaan’). The Greeks invented for them the name Phoinike, Phoinikes, which the Latins adopted as Punica, Poeni or Puni, from Phoinix = red; the Phoenicians appearing to the fair-skinned Greeks as “red” men. Very often they went by the name of Sidonoi (Sidonians), from the name of their oldest city Sidunnu (Sidon, Saida).