> The name ?EL-IS-SA? comes from Phoenician, it means ?Uterus (SA) of Sun
> (EL) and Moon (IS)?.
> The name Elissa is also attested in a Greek legend of Timeus and Iustinus
> in which is narrated the story of Carthaginian queen Theiosso (Elissa in
> Phoenician).

If 'Elissa' was a Phoenician word, what sort of a word was 'Dido'?  Was it
also Phoenician, or Carthaginian (if that was different), or Latin, or
Greek?

Patrick Roper


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