[250] I will give thee a wrought bowl: it is all silver, and the lips are bound with gold; it is the work of Vulcan: the hero Phædimus, king of the Sidonians, gave it [to me], when his home sheltered me, as I was returning from thence. I wish to give this to thee. Odyssey xv. 115.
[251] But in beauty it much excelled [all] upon the whole earth, for the ingenious Sidonians had wrought it cunningly, and Phœnician men had carried it. Iliad xxiii. 742.
[252] The Armenians.
[253] The Arabs.
[254] The Syrians.
[255] Dwelling in caverns.
[256] He saw the cities of many men, and learned their manners. Odyssey i. 3.
[257] Having suffered many things, and having wandered much, I was brought. Odyssey iv. 81.
[258] See Hesiod, Fragments, ed. Loesner, p. 434.
[259] This derivation of Arabia is as problematical as the existence of the hero from whom it is said to have received its name; a far more probable etymology is derived from ereb, signifying the west, a name supposed to have been conferred upon it at a very early period by a people inhabiting Persia.