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[743] The distinction between the Sidonians as craftsmen and the Phoenicians as traders is always observed in H. For the former cf. 6.290-91, Od. 4.618. The Phoenicians are familiar in Od., but are not again mentioned in The Il. difference in quantity between Σιδόνες (-“ι^”-) and “Σιδονίη, -ος” may be due to lengthening by metrical necessity in the case of the latter. We need, however, rather an explanation of the short “ι”; Saida is the Semitic name, and the radical ι cannot have been shortened except in a diphthong. The town itself is “Σι_δών” in Od. 15.425.

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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