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ido is said to have founded Carthage, the statements of the ancients differ greatly. According to Servius (Serv. ad Aen. 4.459), it took place 40 years before the foundation of Rome, that is, in B. C. 794 ; according to Velleius Paterculus (1.6), it was 65 years, and according to Justin (18.6) and Orosius (4.6), 72 years, before the building of Rome. Josephus (c. Apion. 1.18; comp. Syncellus, p. 143) places it 143 years and eight months after the building of the temple of Solomon, that is, B. C. 861; while Eusebius (Chron. n. 971, apud Syncell. p. 345; comp. Chron. n. 1003) places the event 133 years after the taking of Troy, that is, in B. C. 1025; and Philistus placed it even 37 or 50 years before the taking of Troy. (Euseb. Chron. n. 798 ; Syncell. p. 324; Appian, App. Pun. 1.) In the story constructed by Virgil in his Aeneid, he makes Dido, probably after the example of Naevius, a contemporary of Aeneas, with whom she falls in love on his arrival in Africa. As her love was not ret