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Words related to dionysius

Di·o·ny·si·us
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  • damocles

    a sycophant forced by Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, to sit under a sword suspended by a hair to demonstrate that being a king was not the happy state Damocles had said it was

  • damon and pythias

    two friends noted for their mutual loyalty. Damon offered himself as a hostage for Pythias, who was to be executed for treason by Dionysius of Syracuse. When Pythias returned to save his friend's life, he was pardoned

  • dionysius exiguus

    died a.d. 556? Scythian monk, chronologist, and scholar: devised the current system of reckoning the Christian era.

  • dionysius of halicarnassus

    died 7? b.c, Greek rhetorician and historian in Rome.

  • dionysius the areopagite

    1st century a.d, Athenian scholar: converted to Christianity by Saint Paul c50.

  • dionysius thrax

    c100 b.c, Greek grammarian.
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