Phœnician

Phoenician English Adjective - en Phoenician. 1833, Joaquín Lorenzo Villanueva, Phœnician Ireland. 138 III "What diverts me the most," continued Sir George, " is, Ulysses being always called 'the much enduring man.' After all his ten years of wandering are past, pleasantly enough, the greater portion of them being spent with Circe and Calypso—to be sure, it was rather tiresome staying so long with the last—how he must have enjoyed his flirtation with the Phœnician princess!" Noun en Phoenician. en 1859 Patents for Invention. Abridgments of Specifications relating to Printing George E. Eyre; William Spottiswoode http://books.google.com/books?id=zJAhbHXjyqQC&hl=en&pg=PA15#v=onepage&q&f=false 15 Plutarch, and others ascribe its introduction to the West to Cadmus—a Phœnician who founded Thebes, B.C. 1500.