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Definition of Dionysius the elder
1. Noun. The tyrant of Syracuse who fought the Carthaginians (430-367 BC).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dionysius The Elder
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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