Note 503 — Chapter XVIII · PHENICIANS.
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Homer, Iliad, vi, 290: xxiii, 740; Odyss. xv, 116:—
... πέπλοι παμποίκιλοι, ἔργα γυναικῶν Σιδονίων.
Tyre is not named either in the Iliad or Odyssey, though a passage in Probus (ad Virg. Georg. ii, 115) seems to show that it was mentioned in one of the epics which passed under the name of Homer: “Tyrum Sarram appellatam esse, Homerus docet: quem etiam Ennius sequitur cum dicit, Pœnos Sarrâ oriundos.”
The Hesiodic catalogue seems to have noticed both Byblus and Sidon: see Hesiodi Fragment. xxx, ed. Marktscheffel, and Etymolog. Magnum, v. Βύβλος.