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See also:DIDO, or ELISSA , the reputed founder of See also:Carthage (q.v.), in See also:Africa, daughter of the Tyrian See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king Metten (Mutto, Methres, Belus), wife of Acerbas (more correctly Sicharbas; Sychaeus in See also:Virgil), a See also:priest of See also:Hercules. Her See also:husband having been slain by her See also:brother See also:Pygmalion, Dido fled to See also:Cyprus, and thence to the See also:coast of Africa, where she See also:purchased from a See also:local chieftain Iarbas a piece of See also:land on which she built Carthage. The See also:city soon began to prosper and larbas sought Dido's See also:hand in See also:marriage, threatening her with See also:war in See also:case of refusal. To See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape from him, Dido constructed a funeral See also:pile, on which she stabbed herself before the See also:people (See also:Justin xviii. 4-7). Virgil, in See also:defiance of the usually accepted See also:chronology, makes Dido a contemporary of See also:Aeneas, with whom she See also:fell in love after his landing in Africa, and attributes her See also:suicide to her See also:- ABANDONMENT (Fr. abandonnement, from abandonner, to abandon, relinquish; abandonner was originally equivalent to mettred banddn, to leave to the jurisdiction, i.e. of another, bandon being from Low Latin bandum, bannum, order, decree, " ban ")
abandonment by him at the command of See also:Jupiter (Aeneid, iv.). Dido was worshipped at Carthage as a divinity under the name of Caelestis, the See also:Roman counterpart of Tanit, the tutelary goddess of Carthage. According to See also:Timaeus, the See also:oldest authority for the See also:story, her name was Theiosso, in Phoenician Helissa, and she was called Dido from her wanderings, Dido being the Phoenician See also:equivalent of rrXavijatr (Etymologicum Magnum, s.v.); some See also:modern scholars, however, translate the name by " beloved." Timaeus makes no mention of Aeneas, who seems to have been introduced by See also:Naevius'in his Bellum Poenicum, followed by See also:Ennius in his Annales.
For the See also:variations of the See also:legend in earlier and later Latin authors, see O. See also:Rossbach in Pauly-Wissowa's Realencyclopddie, v. pt. I (1905) ; O. Meltzer's Geschichte der Karthager, i. (1879), and his See also:article in See also:Roscher's Lexikon der Mythologie.
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