Definition of Dionysius the elder

1. Noun. The tyrant of Syracuse who fought the Carthaginians (430-367 BC).

Exact synonyms: Dionysius
Generic synonyms: Tyrant

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dionysius The Elder

Diogenean
Diogenes
Diogenes cup
Diomedea exulans
Diomedea nigripes
Diomedeidae
Diomedes
Dion
Dionaea muscipula
Dione
Dionean
Dionysia
Dionysiac
Dionysian
Dionysius
Dionysius the Elder
Dionysos
Dionysus
Diophantine
Diophantine equation
Diophantine equations
Diophantus
Dior
Dioscorea alata
Dioscorea batata
Dioscorea bulbifera
Dioscorea elephantipes
Dioscorea paniculata
Dioscorea trifida
Dioscoreaceae

Literary usage of Dionysius the elder

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians by Charles Rollin (1869)
"CHAPTER I. THIS chapter contains the history of Dionysius the Elder, ... SECTION I. — MEANS MADE USE OF BY dionysius the elder TO POSSESS HIMSELF OF THE ..."

2. Greek Leaders by Leslie White Hopkinson (1918)
"dionysius the elder (Died 367 BC) FEW men have made a deeper impression upon the minds of men of their own time than did Dionysius of Syracuse. ..."

3. The Public Economy of Athens: In Four Books; to which is Added, A by August Boeckh (1828)
"... but a duty upon the animals themselves; of which nature was a tax collected by Dionysius the Elder, tyrant of Syracuse, with almost incredible harshness ..."

4. A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great by John Bagnell Bury (1913)
"367 BC Dion, brother-in- law and wn-iii-law of dionysius the elder. His Political ^spira.tions, Plato's influence m Dion. the pioneer of the great ..."

5. Greece: II. Grecian History to the Reign of Peisistratus at Athens by George Grote (1899)
"... he would thus be in his twenty-fifth year in the beginning of 367 B. c., when dionysius the elder died. The expressions of Plato, as to the youth of ..."

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