The corpus record — Latin

Dionysius

Dionysius · m

the name of several celebrated Greeks

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Where it lives

Dion 16 · 107.82/10k
Timoleon 7 · 84.54/10k
De Regibus 1 · 22.57/10k
Epaminondas 1 · 5.99/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 16 · 2.82/10k
Letters to Atticus 34 · 2.77/10k
Pro C. Rabirio Postumo 1 · 2.46/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 24 3 · 2.12/10k
De Divinatione 5 · 1.82/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 14 · 1.76/10k
Naturalis Historia 54 · 1.36/10k
Ad Nationes 2 · 1.34/10k

Densest 12 of 38 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Dĭŏnȳsĭus — Lewis & Short

Dĭŏnȳsĭus, ii, m., = *dionu/sios,

I the name of several celebrated Greeks; esp.,

I The elder Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, Nep. Dio, 1; id. Reg. 2; Cic. Tusc. 5, 20 sq.; id. N. D. 3, 33 sq. al.—

II His son, likewise tyrant of Syracuse, Nep. Dio, 3 sq.; Just. 21, 1 sq.; Cic. Tusc. 3, 12; id. Fam. 9, 18; Val. Max. 6, 9, 6 extr.—

III Heracleotes, a pupil of Zeno of Citium, at first a Stoic, afterwards a Cyrenaic, Cic. Fin. 5, 31; id. Tusc. 2, 25; 3, 9; id. Ac. 2, 22 fin.—

IV A Stoic, contemporary with Cicero, Cic. Tusc. 2, 11.—

V A musician of Thebes, Nep. Epam. 2, 1.—

VI Name of a slave, Hor. S. 1, 6, 38.—

VII Dionysius Cato, author of the Disticha de moribus ad filium, v. Teuffel, Roem. Lit. § 34, 2.

In the wild

Dionysius Cicero, Letters to Atticus 8.10.1
Dionysium Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 4.56
Dionysi Cicero, De Oratore 2.57
Dionysius Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum index.p109
Dionysius Cicero, Letters to Atticus 6.1.12
Dionysio Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.4.p36

6 of 215 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.