Dĭŏnȳsĭus, ii, m., = Διονύσιος, 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 ( Luc. ), 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, Röm. Lit. § 34, 2.