Dido such discussion that Dido caused her thong to be placed as a half circle touching the sea coast at each end (which would add greatly to the perimeter) but the sources mention the thong only and say nothing about the sea. Carthage was the Roman Republic's greatest rival and enemy, and Virgil's Dido in part symbolises this. Even though no Rome existed in her day, Virgil's Dido curses the future progeny of the Trojans. In Italy under the Fascist regime, her figure was demonized, perhaps not only as an anti-Roman figure but because she represented together at least three other
HMS Dido (1896) HMS Dido (1896) HMS "Dido" was an protected cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1890s. Eclipse-class second-class protected cruisers were preceded by the shorter Astraea-class cruisers. "Dido" had a displacement of when at normal load. It had a total length of , a beam of , a metacentric height of around , and a draught of . It was powered by two inverted triple-expansion steam engines which used steam from eight cylindrical boilers. Using normal draught, the boilers were intended to provide the engines with enough steam to generate and to reach a speed of ; using forced