Dido
A daughter of Belus, king of Tyre, who married Sichaeus or Sicharbus, her uncle, who was priest of Hercules. Pygmalion killed Sichaeus to obtain his immense riches, and Dido, disconsolate at the loss of her husband, set sail with a number of Tyrians in quest of a place in which to form a settlement. A storm drove her fleet on the African coast, and she bought of the inhabitants as much land as could be inclosed by a bull's hide cut into thongs. On this land she built a citadel called Byrsa, which was the nucleus of a great city (Carthage). Her subjects wished her to marry again, but she refused, and erected a funeral pile, on which she ascended and stabbed herself to death.
Diocletianus, Caius Valerius Jovius. A celebrated Roman emperor, born of an obscure family in Dalmatia. He was first a common soldier, and by merit gradually rose to the position of a general, and at length he was invested with imperial power. He has been celebrated for his military virtues, and though he was naturally unpolished by education, yet he was the friend and patron of learning and genius. His cruelty, however, against the followers of Christianity has been severely reprobated. After reigning twentyone years in great prosperity, he abdicated, A. D. 304, and died nine years afterward, aged sixty-eight.
Diodorus, Siculus. Celebrated as the author of a history of Egypt, Persia, Syria, Media, Greece, Rome, and Carthage. It was divided into forty books, of which only fifteen are extant, with a few fragments.