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Pilgrimage in the Holy Land
St John Phocas, tr. Stewart, 1889
Chapter 6
Next comes Sidon and the famous twin harbour therein, whose situation has been admirably described by the historian of Leucippe1; for if you visit the place, with its harbour and outer harbour, you will find the reality exactly agreeing with the description given in his writings. Outside the city, at a distance of about three bow-shots, stands a church, surrounded by a colonnade of great length, upon the upper part of the apse whereof is placed a four-sided stone, whereon, according to the report of the vulgar, Christ the Saviour of the world used to stand and teach the multitude.
Notes
- The reference is to Achilles Tatius, who wrote the ‘Loves of Clitophon and Leucippe,’ a kind of novel, in the first chapter of the first book of which there is a description of the city and harbour of Sidon.