Iarbas

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Iarbas is a character in the Aeneid who fell in love with Queen Dido of Carthage, but she rejected his overtures of love in favor of Aeneas, according to the Roman poet Virgil. He was the son of Jupiter and a nymph. He became king of Gaetulia.

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