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Acerbas Martini
Acerbas was a Tyre (Lebanon), Tyrian priest of Hercules (that is, Melqart, the Tyrian Hercules), who married Dido (Queen of Carthage), Elissa, the daughter of king Mattan I, and sister of Pygmalion of Tyre, Pygmalion. He was possessed of considerable wealth, which, knowing the avarice of Pygmalion, who had succeeded his father, he concealed in the earth. But Pygmalion, who heard of these hidden treasures, had Acerbas murdered, in hopes that through his sister he might obtain possession of them. But the prudence of Elissa saved the treasures, and she emigrated from Phoenicia. They landed and settled in North Africa, founding the city of Carthage. In this account Acerbas is the same person as Sychaeus, and Elissa the same as Dido (Queen of Carthage), Dido in Virgil. The names in Justin (historian), Justin are undoubtedly more correct than in Virgil; for Maurus Servius Honoratus, Servius remarks, that Virgil here, as in other cases, changed a foreign name into one more convenient ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family (taxonomy), family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus. :E.g. ''Panthera leo'' (lion) and ''Panthera onca'' (jaguar) are two species within the genus ''Panthera''. ''Panthera'' is a genus within the family Felidae. The composition of a genus is determined by taxonomy (biology), taxonomists. The standards for genus classification are not strictly codified, so different authorities often produce different classifications for genera. There are some general practices used, however, including the idea that a newly defined genus should fulfill these three criteria to be descriptively useful: # monophyly – all descendants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
