This is in the story of the Prowess of Diomedes,
where the verses run as follows: There were the robes, all embroidered,The work of women of
+Sidon [35.366,33.55] (inhabited place), Al-Janub, Lebanon,
Asia Sidon, whom godlike Alexandrus
himselfBrought from +Sidon
[35.366,33.55] (inhabited place), Al-Janub, Lebanon, Asia Sidon, crossing the broad sea,The same voyage on which he brought back Helen of noble descent.
Hom. Il. 6.289-92
[He mentions it in the
Odyssey also:
The daughter of Zeus had such
ingenious drugs,Good ones, which she had from Thon's wife,
Polydamna, an Egyptian,Whose country's fertile plains bear the most drugs,Many mixed for good, many for harm:
Hom. Od. 4.227-30 ]
and again Menelaus says to Telemachus:I was eager to return here, but the gods still held me
in Egypt [30,27]
(nation), Africa Egypt,Since I had not sacrificed entire hecatombs to them.
Hom. Od. 4. 351-2
In these verses the poet shows that he knew of Alexander's wanderings to Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt; for +Syria [38,35]
(nation), Asia Syria borders on Egypt [30,27]
(nation), Africa Egypt, and the Phoenicians, to whom +Sidon [35.366,33.55] (inhabited
place), Al-Janub, Lebanon, Asia Sidon belongs, dwell in +Syria
[38,35] (nation), Asia Syria.