Dido
or ELISSA, the reputed founder of Carthage. She was the daughter of a king of Tyre, and after her father's death her brother Pygmalion murdered her husband Sicharbas, or as Vergil calls him sichæus, with the view of obtaining his wealth; but Dido, accompanied by many Tyrians of her party, fled with all the treasure over sea, and landing on the coast of Africa founded Carthage about 860 B. C. The story is told by Vergil with many inventions of his own in the "Eneid" (books i and ii).