Iarbas

Iarbas (or Hiarbas) was an Amazigh legendary character[1], who has was mentioned by the Greek philosopher and historian Plutarch as well as in works by various Roman authors including Ovid and Virgil.

"Iarbas was the first being begotten, that he was born in the parched plain, and that he seized (to feed) the sweet acorn of Jupiter.

According to Virgil's Aeneid, he was the prince suitor for the Carthaginian queen Dido, Iarbas comments that Carthage is a city of pitiful size[4] and tells Dido how glorious the city could rise from an important marriage with him an infinitly powerful king and a son of Ammon, she however rejected his advances, he then completely drops out of the story after the rejection[5][6] Variations of the story were referred to by Ovid.

In Ovid's Heroides, Dido describes Iarbas as one of her suitors[7], her own people arranged a forced marriage between her and king Iarbas so that Carthage may rise to glory[8] Aeneas would be handing her over as a captive if he should leave her she told him[9], however Aeneas leaves her bitterly to found Rome and she takes her own life from grief of separation.

In Ovid's Fasti, Iarbas and the Numidians take over Dido's land after her suicide, resulting in his capturing her palace.