Note 506 — Chapter XVIII · PHENICIANS.
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Justin (xviii, 3) states that Sidon was the metropolis of Tyre, but the series of events which he recounts is confused and unintelligible. Strabo also, in one place, calls Sidon the μητρόπολις τῶν Φοινίκων (i, p. 40); in another place he states it as a point disputed between the two cities, which of them was the μητρόπολις τῶν Φοινίκων (xvi, p. 756).
Quintus Curtius affirms both Tyre and Sidon to have been founded by Agênôr (iv, 4, 15).