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She to her fragrant wardrobe bent her way, Where her rich veils in beauteous order lay; Webs by Sidonian virgins finely wrought, From Sidon's woofs by youthful Paris brought, When o'er the boundless main the adulterer led Fair Helen from her home and nuptial bed; From these she chose the fullest, fairest far, With broidery bright, and blazing as a star.
Sidon's pre-eminence in the manufacture, the dyeing, and the embroidery of textile fabrics was at the same time equally unquestionable. Hecuba, being advised to offer to Athene, on behalf of her favourite son, the best and loveliest of all the royal robes which her well-stored dress-chamber could furnish
A dull intermittent sound of hammering came occasionally from the wheelwright's shed at sufficiently protracted intervals to indicate the enfeebled progress of Sidon's vehicular repair.
Sidon was ultimately eclipsed by Tyre in the productions of the loom; and the unrivalled dye has come down to us, and will go down to all future ages, as "Tyrian purple;" but we may well believe that in this, as in most other matters on which prosperity and success depended, Tyre did but follow in the steps of her elder sister Sidon, perfecting possibly the manufacture which had been Sidon's discovery in the early ages.
Separate autonomy of the Phoenician cities No marked predominance of any one or more of them during the Egyptian period, B.C. 1600-1350 A certain pre-eminence subsequently acquired by Aradus and Sidon Sidonian territorial ascendancy Great proficiency of Sidon in the arts Sidon's war with the Philistines Her early colonies Her advances in navigation Her general commercial honesty Occasional kidnapping Stories of Io and Eumaeus Internal government Relations with the Israelites.
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