Sidonius Caius Sollius A poll in aris

, a christian writer, born A.D. 430. He died in the 52nd year of his age. There are remaining of his compositions, some letters and different poems, consisting chiefly of panegyrics on the great men of his time, written in heroic verse, and occasionally in other metre, of which the best edition is that of Labbæus, Paris, 4to, 1652.――The epithet of Sidonius is applied not only to the natives of Sidon, but it is used to expre the excellence of anything, especially embroidery or dyed garments. Carthage is called Sidonia urbs , because built by Sidonians. Virgil , Æneid , bk. 1 , li. 682 .