DID'IUS SAL'VIUS JU'LIA'NUS,1\1mtus. .1 Poinan Emperor for it brief period. :\larcli to dime, Pc.I. Ile had t4111111 :111410,1 the army in iriermally :11101 held high military and civil posts in Italy and the provinves. out been named min more than once tin the murder of Pertinax in 193. the praetorian soldiers iltcred to support a. Emperor whoever would give them the largest ric•. Didius gave them 25.)110 each and gained the throne. hut was '411111 by the on the approach (4 tieptiniiii• `((versus. and murdered by a soldier.
DI'DO (Lat., from Ok. _Wel)), Eossx. ,1e eording to the legend. Ito founder of Carthage. she Ile 41:111U111 e r of Tyre, called by .1genor by others Ilittgo or \lal genus.. Pygmalion. the brother of ]lido. murdered her husband (1010 was her el( • a I I If Ilyreulc. lulled called by Vergil. \Vith the treasures of Si whieli Pygmalion hail (sought for in vain, and ace,Inpanied by many ]lido eseaped its ...ea. She landed in Ifriea, mil far from the Plaenieian colony of l'tieo. rod built a citadel
called Ityr-a la Pli•ni•hin w( rd. confused with (k. #1.pera. the hide "f a lnllI, on a piece 111 ground which she had bought from the King. Ili:Irbil-, The meaning of the word Byrsa gave rise to the legend that 1)ido purchased as ninch land as could he en 11 a 141111444'W:: .1 lien the agreement •he cut the hide into small thongs, and thus inclosed a large piece of terri tory. Here she built the city if l'arthage. To :avoid being compelled to marry lliarlias, she -tabbed her-elf on a funeral pile. which she had caused to be erected. and atter her death was honored as a deity by her subjects. Vergil ascribe, death of 1)i(lo to her unirequiled pas sion for .!auras: but many of the ancient 'writers coneviled that the poet had committed an an achronism in making hi r contemporary with the Trojan prince. The more general was that Dido had built Carthage sonnwvliere between fifty and one hundred year, before the founda tion of liome.