Dido the time of Dido. Even with the date of 864 BC that historical revisionist David Rohl gives for the end of the Trojan War, Aeneas would have been about 77 years old when Dido fled Tyre in 825 BC and 88 when she began to build Carthage in 814 (following Peñuela's reconstruction), hardly consistent with the romantic intrigues between Dido and Aeneas imagined by Virgil in the "Aeneid". Virgil's references in the "Aeneid" generally agree with what Justin's epitome of Trogus recorded. Virgil names Belus as Dido's father, this Belus sometimes being called Belus II by later commentators to distinguish
HMS Dido (1784) of her guns burst. "Dido" was the only ship of the Mediterranean Fleet to exchange fire with French ships during Martin's cruise of 1794, but was unable to prevent the French escaping into Gourjean Bay. "Dido" captured "Révolution", a French vessel possibly a navy corvette, on 8 October 1794 off Porto Mauruzio between Nice and Genoa. "Dido" captured the xebec "Témėraire" on 14 March 1795. The Royal Navy took her into service as HMS "Temeraire", later renamed to HMS "Transfer". Admiral Hotham sent "Dido" under Captain George Henry Towry and , a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate under Captain Robert Middleton, to