Gildo

Gildō, ōnis, m. , Gildon [qui, révolté contre Arcadius, fut vaincu par Stilicon] : Claud. || Gildonicum bellum, la guerre de Gildon [poème de Claudien].

Gildo

A Moorish chief who governed Africa for several years under the Western Empire, but in A.D. 397 became a subject of the Eastern Empire, of which Arcadius was then the head. He was taken prisoner by Stilicho, acting for the emperor Honorius, and hanged himself in despair in A.D. 398. The Latin poet Claudianus has made this war the subject of a poem (De Bello Gildonico). See Claudianus.