Ιαρβας

A native African king. He was a son of Jupiter Ammon and a Nymph from the country of the Garamantes. He reigned over the Gaetuli. He granted DIDO the land on which she founded Carthage, but being in love with the queen and jealous of Aeneas he attacked the new city after Dido's death and drove out Dido's sister ANNA.

{E2 DICTIONARY OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY}

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