Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . om the present town. . .On the north side of the town, there are great ruinsof a fine fort, the walls of which were built withvery large stones, 12 feet in length, which is thethickness of the wall; and some are 11 feet broad, and :< deep. The harbour is now choked up This harbour seems to be the minor port mentioned byStrabo (xvi. p. 756) for the winter; the outer oneprobably being to the north in the open sea betweeniSidon and Tyre (?), where the shipping rides insafety during the summer season. (^ObservationsOil Palestine, p. 86.) The sepulchral
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . om the present town. . .On the north side of the town, there are great ruinsof a fine fort, the walls of which were built withvery large stones, 12 feet in length, which is thethickness of the wall; and some are 11 feet broad, and :< deep. The harbour is now choked up This harbour seems to be the minor port mentioned byStrabo (xvi. p. 756) for the winter; the outer oneprobably being to the north in the open sea betweeniSidon and Tyre (?), where the shipping rides insafety during the summer season. (^ObservationsOil Palestine, p. 86.) The sepulchral grots are cut inthe rock at the foot of the hills ; and some of themare adorned with pilasters, and handsomely territory of the Sidonians, originally cir-cumscribed towards the north by the proximityof the hostile Gibbites, extended southwards to thetribe of Zebulon, and Mount Carmel; but was after-wards limited iu this direction also by the growingpower of their rivals the Tyrians. (Ritter, I. c. , &c.) SIGEUM. 997. COIN OF SIDON. SIDONES (SiSoifes), a tribe in the extreme eastof Germany, about the sources of the Vistula ( 11. § 21), and no doubt the same which appearsin Strabo (vii. p. 306) under the name of SiSocej,as a bianch of the Bastarnae. [L. S.] SIDONIA. [Pkdoxia.] iSIDUS (2i5oGx, SiSouiTias Ku/xri, Hesych.: ), a village in the Corinthia, on theSaronic gulf, between Crommyon and Schoenus. Itwas taken by the Lacedaemonians along with Crom-iiivon in the Corinthian War, but was recovered byIphicrates. (Xen. Nell. iv. 4. § 13, iv. 5. § 19.) Itprobably stood in the plain of Siisdki. (Scylax;Steph. B. s. V.; Plin. iv. 7. s. 11; Boblaye, Re-clwrches, <fc. p. 35 ; Leake, Peloponnesiaca, ; Curtius, Peloponnesos, vol. ii. p. 555.) SIDUSSA (SiSoi/ffcra), a small town of Ionia,belonging to the territory of Erythrae. ( 24; Steph. B. s. j;.) Pliny (v. 38) erroneouslydescribes it as an island off the coast of Erythrae. Iti
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