Didier
EUGENE LEMOINE, American prose-writer; born in Baltimore, Md., Dec. 22, 1838. Many of his writings have appeared over the signature "Lemoine" and "Timon." He published the "Life of Edgar A. Poe" (1876); "Life and Letters of Madame Bonaparte" (1879), republished in London and translated into French and Italian; a "Primer of Criticism" 1883); etc.
DIDIUS SALVIUS JULIANUS, MARCUS, a Roman emperor, born about A. D. 133. Having filled the offices of questor, ædile, and prætor, he was appointed commander of a legion in Germany, and subsequently governor of Belgica. For his services against the Catti, he was made governor of Dalmatica, and next of lower Germany. Having distinguished himself in Africa and Asia Minor, he returned to Rome, and, on the assassination of Pertinax, made himself emperor by bribing the prætorian guards. He now assumed the name of Marcus Didius Commodus Severus Julianus; but, after a short reign of two months, was killed in his palace by a common soldier, A. D. 193.