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Search Results: "dion

Title Matches: 4
Boucicault, Dion
a dramatic writer, author of popular irish pieces, as "the colleen bawn" and "the shaughraun" (1822-1890).
Dion Cassius
A Greek historian, born at Nicæa, in Bithynia, about A.D. 155; went to Rome, and served under a succession of emperors; wrote a "History of Rome"
Dion Chrysostomus
With the golden, or eloquent, mouth), a celebrated Greek rhetorician, born at Prusa, in Bithynia, about the middle of the 1st century; inclined to the
Dion of Syracuse
A pupil of Plato, and an austere man; was from his austerity obnoxious to his pleasure-loving nephew, Dionysius the Younger; subjected to banishment;
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Dionysius the Younger
Tyrant of Syracuse, son of the preceding, succeeded him in 367 B.C. at the age of thirty; had never taken part in public affairs; was given over to vicious
 
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