Quintus Didius
Quintus Didius was a Roman governor of the province
Syria
(31 BC to 29 BC).
Octavian, the later Emperor
Cleopatra VII. Then – at the end of 31 BC – he sent Didius as governor to Syria. If Octavian conquered Egypt, Cleopatra wanted to escape to India with a fleet, which she had pulled through a silty canal into the Red Sea, but Didius induced Malchos, the king of the Nabataeans, to stop her plan by setting her ships on fire.[1]
The Jewish king
Asia Minor to their leader in Egypt. Didius forced the gladiators to surrender and settle themselves in Daphne, a suburb of the town of Antioch.[2]
Notes
- ^ Cassius Dio, Roman History 51.7.1 in connection with Plutarch, Antony 69.3–5.
- The Wars of the Jews1.392.
References
- Michael Grant: Cleopatra. 1974 (German 1998), pp. 301–302.
- Friedrich Münzer: Didius 4). In: Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft, vol. 5, 1 (1901), col. 407.