DID 
dan Tt was obferved, that when left to yaad Gates 
and himfelf, he paffed a fleeplefs night, reflecting o an- 
gerous tenure of an empire that had not been a auc ed b 
merit,but purchafed by money. ‘He had,” fays the eloquent 
orian, $s reafon to tre emble. On the Cane of the world he 
avarice had a pt, ror was i a Citi- 
zen who did aE ee his elevation with hor 
iat infult of the Roman name.” The people ae the 
proffered liberality of the emperor; infulted his perfon, and 
waited with anxiety for the armies in the diftant provinces, 
as avengers of the public wrongs. The approach of Severus, 
He met with no compaffion, but en emmon male- 
faGtor, his oe reign of fixty- fix days, at the age of 
fixty. Gib 
DIDO, in i Fabulous Hiftory and Mythology, t a furname of 
the princefs Elifa, who is faid to have founded Carthage. 
was the os ae of Belus Il. king of oe. in Pheeni« 
When rother Pygmalion afcended the throne after 
a death of his ne and Elsfa was married to Sich arbas, 
Her who was im- 
ch; the dread of ae 
profeffing her defire to ite a a where her pric was re= 
newed, took up her abode with Pygmalion ing,'pre- 
fuming ne fhe would bring with eas ve treafire of her huf- 
band, fent her a ae and convoy ; e fhe fet fail, the 
ribet pera to lodge in the hhip ae ae loaded with 
fand ; and having reported that fhe was going to facrifice to 
the manes of her hufband what fhe chicfly valued, the tock 
Wena) of throwing thefe bales into the fea; and 
Heh told the foldiers, who accompanied her, that they con- 
tained the money of Sicharbas, and that they had no alterna- 
tive for their own fafety but that of flying with her; for as 
foon as Pygmalion found that Rte were come without the 
expected treafure, ee bas put them all todeath. Accord. 
future grandeur Be een 
After the Pena. whom Dido led into this part of 
Africa, had made their fettlement there, they attempted to 
compel the princefs to marry Tar Ps ing of Mauritania : but 
fhe difappointed their views, by ereCting a funeral pile, 
asi if by fome facrifice fhe intended to aoe ie manes of her 
o her life with 
a core From this action, it 1s faid, the she ae name 
ears, as there is no lefs am interval between Aincas and 
DID 
Dido; at ag hear a variety of ra about the 
time- in which fhe lived, it is generally a cad es it was 
r of Pygmalion’s r 
years ae he taking of Troy, and me 
hundred years B,C. After ker death her fubje «Cts ateried 
to her divine honours and paid her religious worfhip. Sir Ifaa 
Newton, in his Chronology , reprefents /Eneas and Dido as as 
contemporaries in the year 683, B. C.3 when, as he iayss Dido 
built Car rthage, an he {tates the capture of Troy to have 
pe pes in es year 904 B.C., which ee refer to 
184 B.C. 
Dib RACH, from dic, double, and dsxxpx. See 
DIDUGUA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Afia, in 
Babylonia. 
I, a people of Afiatic Iberia, according to Pliny. 
ata places them in Sarmatia, in the vicinity of the Caf. 
n fea 
PDIDUS, in Ornithology, a [ae of the cig iat tribe. 
The bill is ftraightened in middle with t an{verfe 
wrinkles, and both ade are bent in at t he 
noftrils are placed obliquely near the edge of the “middle of 
the bill; face naked beyond the eyes; legs fhort, thick ; 
feet cleft ; 3 wings unfit for flight. , 
Species. 
neprus. Greyifh; wings and tail cinereous yellows 
head hooded. Didus ineptus, Linn. Raphus, Brif. Cygnus 
cucullatus, Raii. Hooded Dodo, Lath. Edw. &c 
The exiftence of this uncouth bird hay been difputed, 
ee not in our ve with SS apa for although 
this curious creature has not been feen by any modern tra- 
Vv iler, or natu alift, fhe nce = thfe peau authors 
who defe ribed | it inthe early part 
not to be rejected 
the ifle of Mauritius, and to have given it the name of Do- 
daerts, and Walgh-vog<l ; the name Dodo is that by which 
the ae eee diftinguifhed it, and the French called it 
Cygne on, and autruche oo but the 
was fir in noticed by them is Dronte. 
In Herbert’s oa, publifhed in awe n account of this 
bird is inferted, accompanied by a rude and ind:fferent 
under the name of Dod-eerfen. He infor 
feldom weighs lefs than fifty pounds. 
, the colour 3s of a Aion 
oad, 1 
green, mixed with pale yellov eyes r ound and b has 
fine aoa ioftead of feathers ; ae train (like toa China beard) 
is no more than three or four (hort feathers; the head vari- 
oufly drefled, one-half being oe with down of a dar 
colour, the other half naked, and of a white hue, as if lawn 
were drawn over it; the legs thick and black, and the talons 
. 
