A
freedman
of Atticus, whose full name
ant.
ant.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a
Timol.
14, 15; xv.
705; Villoison, Prolegom.
ad Hom.
I.
p.
xxix.
)
Justin, xxi. 5; Clearch. ap. Athen. xii. p. 541: 2. A history of Music (MOVOIRTİ iotopía) in 36
Aelian, V. H. vi. 12; Cic. Tusc. iii. 12. ) books, with accounts of citharoedi, auletae, and
There are no authentic coins of either of the poets of all kinds. (Suid. I. c. ) 3. 'Pubuird ÚTou-
two Dionysii : probably the republican forms were whuata, in 24 books. (Suid. l. c. ) 4. Movoikiſs tal-
still so far retained, notwithstanding their virtual dela ti Olatpibai, in 22 books. (Suid. l. c. ) 5. A
despotism, that all coins struck under their rule work in five books on what Plato had said about
bore the name of the city only. According to music in his hoditela. (Suid. l. c. ; Eudoc. p. 131. )
Müller (Archäol. d. Kunst. p. 128), the splendid 2. Bishop of ALEXANDRIA, was probably a
silver coins, of the weight of ten drachms, com- native of the same city. He was born of pagan
monly known as Syracusan medallions, belong for parents, who were persons of rank and influence.
He studied the doctrines of the various philoso-
phical sects, and this led him at last to embrace
Christianity. Origen, who was one of his teachers,
had probably great influence upon this step of his
pupil. After having been a presbyter for some
time, he succeeded, about A. D. 232, Heraclas as
the head of the theological school at Alexandria,
-7697 and after the death of Heraclas, who had been
raised to the bishopric of Alexandria, Dionysius
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1038
DIONYSIUS.
DIONYSIUS.
surname.
succeeded him in the see, A. D. 247. During the 4. Of ANTIOCH, a sophist, who seems to have
persecution of the Christians by Decius, Dionysius been a Christian, and to be the same person as the
was seized by the soldiers and carried to Taposiris, one to whom the nineteenth letter of Aeneas of
a small town between Alexandria and Canopus, Gaza is addressed. He himself is the reputed
probably with a view of putting him to death there. author of 46 letters, which are still extant. A
But he escaped from captivity in a manner which | Latin version of them was first printed by G.
he himself describes very minutely (ap. Euseb. Cognatus, in his “ Epistolae Laconicae," Basel,
Ilist. Eccl. vi. 40). He had, however, to suffer 1554, 12m0. , and afterwards in J. Buchler's
still more severely in A. D. 257, during the perse- “ Thesaurus Epist. Lacon. ," 1606, 12mo. The
cution which the emperor Valerian instituted Greek original was first edited by II. Stephens, in
against the Christians. Dionysius made an open bis Collection of Greek Epistles, Paris, 1577, 8vo.
confession of his faith before the emperor's praefect Meursius is inclined to attribute these Epistles to
Acmilianus, and was exiled in consequence to Dionysius of Miletus, without, however, assigning
Cephro, a desert district of Libya, whither he was any reason for it.
compelled to proceed forth with, although he was 5. Surnamed AREIOPAGEITA, an Athenian, who
severely ill at the time. After an exile of three is called by Suidas a most eminent man, who rose
years, an edict of Gallienus in favour of the Chris- to the height of Greek erudition. He is said to
tians enabled him to return to Alexandria, where have first studied at Athens, and afterwards at
henceforth he was extremely zealous in combating Heliopolis in Egypt. When he observed in Egypt
heretical opinions. In his attacks against Sabellius the eclipse of the sun, which occurred during the
he was carried so far by his zeal, that he uttered crucifixion of Jesus Christ, he is said to have ex-
things which were themselves incompatible with claimed, “ either God himself is suffering, or he
the orthodox faith; but when he was taken to ac- sympathises with some one who is suffering. ” On
count by Dionysius, bishop of Rome, who convoked his return to Athens he was made one of the
a synod for the purpose, he readily owned that he council of the Areiopagus, whence he derives his
had acted rashly and inconsiderately. In A. D. 265
About A. D. 50, when St. Paul preached
he was invited to a synod at Antioch, to dispute at Athens, Dionysius became a Christian (The
with Paulus of Samosata, but being prevented from Acts, xvii. 34), and it is said that he was not only
going thither by old age and infirmity, he wrote a the first bishop of Athens, but that he was installed
letter to the synod on the subject of the contro- in that office by St. Paul himself. (Euseb. H. E.
versy to be discussed, and soon after, in the same iii. 4, iv, 23; Suidas. ) He is further said to have
year, he died, after having occupied the see of died the death of a martyr under most cruel tor-
Alexandria for a period of seventeen years. The tures. Whether Dionysius Areiopageita ever wrote
church of Rome regards Dionysius as a saint, and anything, is highly uncertain ; but there exists
celebrates his memory on the 18th of October. under his name a number of works of a mystico-
We learn from Epiphanes (Haeres. 69), that at Christian nature, which contain ample evidence
Alexandria a church was dedicated to him. Dio that they are the productions of some Neo-
nysius wrote a considerable number of theological | Platonist, and can scarcely have been written
works, consisting partly of treatises and partly of before the fifth or sixth century of our era. With-
epistles addressed to the heads of churches and to out entering upon any detail about those works,
communities, but all that is left us of them consists which would be out of place here, we need only
of fragments preserved in Eusebius and others. remark, that they exercised a very great in-
A complete list of his works is given by Cave, fiuence upon the formation and development of
from which we mention only the most import- Christianity in the middle ages. At the time of
1. On Promises, in two books, was di- the Carlovingian emperors, those works were in-
rected against Nepos, and two considerable frag-troduced into western Europe in a Latin transla-
ments of it are still extant. (Euseb. H. E. iii. tion made by Scotus Erigena, and gave the first
28, vii. 24. ) 2. A work addressed to Dionysius, impulse to that mystic and scholastic theology
bishop of Rome, in four books or epistles, against which afterwards maintained itself for centuries.
Sabellius. Dionysius here excused the hasty (Fabric. Bibl. Gr. vii. p. 7, &c. ; Bähr, Gesch. der
assertions of which he himself had been guilty in Röm. Lit. im Karoling. Zeitalter, § 187. )
attacking Sabellius. A great number of fragments 6. A son of AREius, the teacher and friend of
and extracts of it are preserved in the writings of Augustus, who also profited by his intercourse
Athanasius and Basilius. 3. A work addressed with the sons of Areius, Dionysius, and Nicanor.
to Timotheus, “ On Nature," of which extracts (Sueton. Aug. 89; comp. AREius. )
are preserved in Eusebius. (Pracp. Erang. xiv. 7. Surnamed ASCALAPHUS, seems to have
23, 27. ) Of his Epistles also numerous fragments written an exegesis of the Theodoris, a melic poem
are extant in the works of Eusebius. All that is
on Eros. (Etym. M. s. v. Alovúolos ; Athen. xi.
extant of Dionysius, is collected in Gallandi's Bibl.
p. 475. )
Patr. ii. p. 481, &c. , and in the separate collection 8. Of ARGOs, seems to have been an historian,
by Simon de Magistris, Rome, 1796, fol. (Cave, as he is quoted by Clemens of Alexandria (Strom.
Hist. Lit. i. p. 95, &c. )
i. p. 139) respecting the time at which Troy was
3. Of ALEXANDRIA, a son of Glaucus, a Greek taken. (Comp. Schol. ad Pind. Nem. ii. 1. )
grammarian, who flourished from the time of Nero
9. Of Athens, is quoted by the Scholiast on
to that of Trajan. He was secretary and librarian | Apollonius Rhodius (ii. 279) as the author of a
to the emperors in whose reign he lived, and was work entitled kuņoets, that is, on conception or
also employed in embassies. He was the teacher birth, which is also mentioned in the Etymologicum
of the grammarian Parthenius, and a pupil of the Magnum (s. r. Nipoikóvvnoos), where, however, the
philosopher Chaeremon, whom he also succeeded reading KT1oEotv should be corrected into Kunocov,
at Alexandria. (Athen. xi. p. 501; Suid. s. v. and not into krioeow, as Sylburg proposes.
Διονύσιος ; Eudoc.
p. 133. )
I 10.
A freedman of Atticus, whose full name
ant.
## p. 1039 (#1059) ##########################################
DIONYSIUS.
1039
DIONYSIUS.
1
therefore was T. Pomponius Dionysius. Both certainly have been one of them. (Osann, Beiträge
Ciccro and Atticus were very much attached to z. Griech. u. Röm. Lit. i. p. 79, &c. ; Welcker, in
him. (Cic. ad Att. iv. 8, 11, 13, 15. )
the Rhein. Mus. for 1836, p. 440, &c. ; Bergk,
ll. A native of Bithynia, a dialectic or Mega- | Poct. Lyr. Graec. p. 432, &c. , where the fragments
ric philosopher, who was the teacher of Theodorus of Dionysius are collected. )
the atheist. (Strab. xii. p. 566 ; Diog. Laërt. ii. 17. Of Charax, in Susiana on the Arabian gulf,
98. )
lived in the time of Augustus, who sent him to
12. Of BYZANTIUM, appears to have lived before the cast that he might record all the exploits of his
the time of the emperor Severus, that is, before grandson on his Parthian and Arabian expedition.
A. D. 197, and is mentioned by Stephanus of By- (Plin. II. N. vi. 31. )
zantium (s. v. Xpvoótonis) and Suidas as the 18. A slave of Cicero, and a person of con-
author of an dváhovs Bootópou. Suidas further siderable literary attainments, for which reason
calls him an epic poet, and states that he also wrote Cicero employed him to instruct his son Marcus,
on the species of poetry called Spñvor. Some writers and was greatly attached to him. Cicero praises
have believed that our Dionysius of Byzantium is him in several passages for his attachment, learn-
the same as the one whose Periegesis is still extant, ing, and honesty, and appears to have rewarded
but this opinion is without foundation, and based his virtues by emancipating him. At a later
only on the opinion of Suidas. The aván dous period, however, he complains of his want of grati-
Bootópou seems to have existed complete down to iude, and at last he felt obliged to dismiss him,
the 16th century, for P. Gyllius in his work on though he very much regretted the loss of so able
the Thracian Bosporus gave a considerable portion a teacher. Subsequently, however, the parties be-
of it in a Latin translation. G. J. Vossius ob- came reconciled. (Cic. ad Att. iv. 15, 17, 18, r.
tained a copy of a fragment of it, which his son 3, ix. 3, 12, 15, vi. 1, 2, vii. 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 18,
Isaac had taken at Florence, and that fragment, 26, viii. 4, 5, 10, x. 2, xiii. 2, 33, ad Fam. xii.
which is now the only part of the Anaplus known 24, 30. ) A son of this Dionysius is mentioned by
to us, is printed in Du Cange's Constantinopolis Seneca (Controv. i. 4. )
Christiana, in Hudson's Geogr. Minor. vol. iii. , 19. A slave of Cicero, who employed him as
and in Fabricius, Bibl. Gr. iv. p. 664, note lo reader and librarian; but Dionysius robbed his
(Comp. Bernhardy in his edition of Dionys. Perieg. master of several books, and then escaped to Illy-
P. 492. )
ricum. (Cic. ad Att. ix. 3, ad Fam. v. 9, 10, 11,
13. DIONYSIUS Cassius. (Cassius, p. 626. ] 13, xiii. 77. )
14. DIONYSIUS Cato. (Cato, p. 634. ]
20. Of COLOPHON, forged conjointly with Zo
15. Of Chalcis, a Greek historian, who lived pyrus some works which they published under
before the Christian era. He wrote a work on the name of Menippus, the Cynic. (Diog. Laërt.
the foundation of towns (ktioeis) in five books, vi. 100; Schol. ad Aristoph. Av. 1299. )
which is frequently referred to by the ancients. 21. Of CORINTH, an epic poet, who wrote some
A considerable number of fragments of the work metrical works, such as Advice for Life (umuenkai),
hare thus been preserved, but its author is other- on Causes (attia; Suid. s. v. AlovÚO LOS; Plut. Amat.
wise unknown. (Marcian. Heracl. Peripl. p. 5; 17), and Meteorologica. In prose he wrote a
Suid. s. v. Xalki IKT ; Harpocrat. s. v. 'Hpaioria commentary on Hesiod. Suidas also mentions a
and 'Hpalov teixos; Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. i. 558, periegesis of the earth, but this is in all probability
1024, ir. 264, ad Aristoph. Nub. 397 ; Dionys. Hal. the production of a different person, Dionysius Pe
A. R. i. 72 ; Strab. xii. p. 566 ; Plut. de Malign. riegetes. (Eudoc. p. 132. ) Some also believe that
Herod. 22 ; Scymnus, 115; Clem. Alex. Strom. i. he was the author of a metrical work, Albiká, which
p. 144; Zenob. Proverb. v. 64; Apostol. xviii. was likewise the work of a different person. (Bern-
25; Photius, s. vv. Ipažidinn, Tenulo eis ; Eudoc. hardy, in his edit. of Dionys. Perieg. p. 492, &c. )
p. 438. )
22. Bishop of CORINTH in the latter half of the
16. Surnamed Chalcus (ó Xatkows), an ancient second century after Christ, distinguished himself
Attic poet and orator, who derived his surname among the prelates of his time by his piety, his
from his having advised the Athenians to coin eloquence, and the holiness of his life. He not
brass money for the purpose of facilitating traffic. only watched with the greatest care over his own
(Athen. xv. p. 669. ) Of his oratory we know diocese, but shewed a deep interest in the welfare
nothing ; but his poems, chiefly elegies, are often of other communities and provinces, to which he
referred to and quoted. (Plut. Nic. 5; Aristot. addressed admonitory epistles. He died the death
Rhet. iii. 2; Athen. xv. pp.
Justin, xxi. 5; Clearch. ap. Athen. xii. p. 541: 2. A history of Music (MOVOIRTİ iotopía) in 36
Aelian, V. H. vi. 12; Cic. Tusc. iii. 12. ) books, with accounts of citharoedi, auletae, and
There are no authentic coins of either of the poets of all kinds. (Suid. I. c. ) 3. 'Pubuird ÚTou-
two Dionysii : probably the republican forms were whuata, in 24 books. (Suid. l. c. ) 4. Movoikiſs tal-
still so far retained, notwithstanding their virtual dela ti Olatpibai, in 22 books. (Suid. l. c. ) 5. A
despotism, that all coins struck under their rule work in five books on what Plato had said about
bore the name of the city only. According to music in his hoditela. (Suid. l. c. ; Eudoc. p. 131. )
Müller (Archäol. d. Kunst. p. 128), the splendid 2. Bishop of ALEXANDRIA, was probably a
silver coins, of the weight of ten drachms, com- native of the same city. He was born of pagan
monly known as Syracusan medallions, belong for parents, who were persons of rank and influence.
He studied the doctrines of the various philoso-
phical sects, and this led him at last to embrace
Christianity. Origen, who was one of his teachers,
had probably great influence upon this step of his
pupil. After having been a presbyter for some
time, he succeeded, about A. D. 232, Heraclas as
the head of the theological school at Alexandria,
-7697 and after the death of Heraclas, who had been
raised to the bishopric of Alexandria, Dionysius
## p. 1038 (#1058) ##########################################
1038
DIONYSIUS.
DIONYSIUS.
surname.
succeeded him in the see, A. D. 247. During the 4. Of ANTIOCH, a sophist, who seems to have
persecution of the Christians by Decius, Dionysius been a Christian, and to be the same person as the
was seized by the soldiers and carried to Taposiris, one to whom the nineteenth letter of Aeneas of
a small town between Alexandria and Canopus, Gaza is addressed. He himself is the reputed
probably with a view of putting him to death there. author of 46 letters, which are still extant. A
But he escaped from captivity in a manner which | Latin version of them was first printed by G.
he himself describes very minutely (ap. Euseb. Cognatus, in his “ Epistolae Laconicae," Basel,
Ilist. Eccl. vi. 40). He had, however, to suffer 1554, 12m0. , and afterwards in J. Buchler's
still more severely in A. D. 257, during the perse- “ Thesaurus Epist. Lacon. ," 1606, 12mo. The
cution which the emperor Valerian instituted Greek original was first edited by II. Stephens, in
against the Christians. Dionysius made an open bis Collection of Greek Epistles, Paris, 1577, 8vo.
confession of his faith before the emperor's praefect Meursius is inclined to attribute these Epistles to
Acmilianus, and was exiled in consequence to Dionysius of Miletus, without, however, assigning
Cephro, a desert district of Libya, whither he was any reason for it.
compelled to proceed forth with, although he was 5. Surnamed AREIOPAGEITA, an Athenian, who
severely ill at the time. After an exile of three is called by Suidas a most eminent man, who rose
years, an edict of Gallienus in favour of the Chris- to the height of Greek erudition. He is said to
tians enabled him to return to Alexandria, where have first studied at Athens, and afterwards at
henceforth he was extremely zealous in combating Heliopolis in Egypt. When he observed in Egypt
heretical opinions. In his attacks against Sabellius the eclipse of the sun, which occurred during the
he was carried so far by his zeal, that he uttered crucifixion of Jesus Christ, he is said to have ex-
things which were themselves incompatible with claimed, “ either God himself is suffering, or he
the orthodox faith; but when he was taken to ac- sympathises with some one who is suffering. ” On
count by Dionysius, bishop of Rome, who convoked his return to Athens he was made one of the
a synod for the purpose, he readily owned that he council of the Areiopagus, whence he derives his
had acted rashly and inconsiderately. In A. D. 265
About A. D. 50, when St. Paul preached
he was invited to a synod at Antioch, to dispute at Athens, Dionysius became a Christian (The
with Paulus of Samosata, but being prevented from Acts, xvii. 34), and it is said that he was not only
going thither by old age and infirmity, he wrote a the first bishop of Athens, but that he was installed
letter to the synod on the subject of the contro- in that office by St. Paul himself. (Euseb. H. E.
versy to be discussed, and soon after, in the same iii. 4, iv, 23; Suidas. ) He is further said to have
year, he died, after having occupied the see of died the death of a martyr under most cruel tor-
Alexandria for a period of seventeen years. The tures. Whether Dionysius Areiopageita ever wrote
church of Rome regards Dionysius as a saint, and anything, is highly uncertain ; but there exists
celebrates his memory on the 18th of October. under his name a number of works of a mystico-
We learn from Epiphanes (Haeres. 69), that at Christian nature, which contain ample evidence
Alexandria a church was dedicated to him. Dio that they are the productions of some Neo-
nysius wrote a considerable number of theological | Platonist, and can scarcely have been written
works, consisting partly of treatises and partly of before the fifth or sixth century of our era. With-
epistles addressed to the heads of churches and to out entering upon any detail about those works,
communities, but all that is left us of them consists which would be out of place here, we need only
of fragments preserved in Eusebius and others. remark, that they exercised a very great in-
A complete list of his works is given by Cave, fiuence upon the formation and development of
from which we mention only the most import- Christianity in the middle ages. At the time of
1. On Promises, in two books, was di- the Carlovingian emperors, those works were in-
rected against Nepos, and two considerable frag-troduced into western Europe in a Latin transla-
ments of it are still extant. (Euseb. H. E. iii. tion made by Scotus Erigena, and gave the first
28, vii. 24. ) 2. A work addressed to Dionysius, impulse to that mystic and scholastic theology
bishop of Rome, in four books or epistles, against which afterwards maintained itself for centuries.
Sabellius. Dionysius here excused the hasty (Fabric. Bibl. Gr. vii. p. 7, &c. ; Bähr, Gesch. der
assertions of which he himself had been guilty in Röm. Lit. im Karoling. Zeitalter, § 187. )
attacking Sabellius. A great number of fragments 6. A son of AREius, the teacher and friend of
and extracts of it are preserved in the writings of Augustus, who also profited by his intercourse
Athanasius and Basilius. 3. A work addressed with the sons of Areius, Dionysius, and Nicanor.
to Timotheus, “ On Nature," of which extracts (Sueton. Aug. 89; comp. AREius. )
are preserved in Eusebius. (Pracp. Erang. xiv. 7. Surnamed ASCALAPHUS, seems to have
23, 27. ) Of his Epistles also numerous fragments written an exegesis of the Theodoris, a melic poem
are extant in the works of Eusebius. All that is
on Eros. (Etym. M. s. v. Alovúolos ; Athen. xi.
extant of Dionysius, is collected in Gallandi's Bibl.
p. 475. )
Patr. ii. p. 481, &c. , and in the separate collection 8. Of ARGOs, seems to have been an historian,
by Simon de Magistris, Rome, 1796, fol. (Cave, as he is quoted by Clemens of Alexandria (Strom.
Hist. Lit. i. p. 95, &c. )
i. p. 139) respecting the time at which Troy was
3. Of ALEXANDRIA, a son of Glaucus, a Greek taken. (Comp. Schol. ad Pind. Nem. ii. 1. )
grammarian, who flourished from the time of Nero
9. Of Athens, is quoted by the Scholiast on
to that of Trajan. He was secretary and librarian | Apollonius Rhodius (ii. 279) as the author of a
to the emperors in whose reign he lived, and was work entitled kuņoets, that is, on conception or
also employed in embassies. He was the teacher birth, which is also mentioned in the Etymologicum
of the grammarian Parthenius, and a pupil of the Magnum (s. r. Nipoikóvvnoos), where, however, the
philosopher Chaeremon, whom he also succeeded reading KT1oEotv should be corrected into Kunocov,
at Alexandria. (Athen. xi. p. 501; Suid. s. v. and not into krioeow, as Sylburg proposes.
Διονύσιος ; Eudoc.
p. 133. )
I 10.
A freedman of Atticus, whose full name
ant.
## p. 1039 (#1059) ##########################################
DIONYSIUS.
1039
DIONYSIUS.
1
therefore was T. Pomponius Dionysius. Both certainly have been one of them. (Osann, Beiträge
Ciccro and Atticus were very much attached to z. Griech. u. Röm. Lit. i. p. 79, &c. ; Welcker, in
him. (Cic. ad Att. iv. 8, 11, 13, 15. )
the Rhein. Mus. for 1836, p. 440, &c. ; Bergk,
ll. A native of Bithynia, a dialectic or Mega- | Poct. Lyr. Graec. p. 432, &c. , where the fragments
ric philosopher, who was the teacher of Theodorus of Dionysius are collected. )
the atheist. (Strab. xii. p. 566 ; Diog. Laërt. ii. 17. Of Charax, in Susiana on the Arabian gulf,
98. )
lived in the time of Augustus, who sent him to
12. Of BYZANTIUM, appears to have lived before the cast that he might record all the exploits of his
the time of the emperor Severus, that is, before grandson on his Parthian and Arabian expedition.
A. D. 197, and is mentioned by Stephanus of By- (Plin. II. N. vi. 31. )
zantium (s. v. Xpvoótonis) and Suidas as the 18. A slave of Cicero, and a person of con-
author of an dváhovs Bootópou. Suidas further siderable literary attainments, for which reason
calls him an epic poet, and states that he also wrote Cicero employed him to instruct his son Marcus,
on the species of poetry called Spñvor. Some writers and was greatly attached to him. Cicero praises
have believed that our Dionysius of Byzantium is him in several passages for his attachment, learn-
the same as the one whose Periegesis is still extant, ing, and honesty, and appears to have rewarded
but this opinion is without foundation, and based his virtues by emancipating him. At a later
only on the opinion of Suidas. The aván dous period, however, he complains of his want of grati-
Bootópou seems to have existed complete down to iude, and at last he felt obliged to dismiss him,
the 16th century, for P. Gyllius in his work on though he very much regretted the loss of so able
the Thracian Bosporus gave a considerable portion a teacher. Subsequently, however, the parties be-
of it in a Latin translation. G. J. Vossius ob- came reconciled. (Cic. ad Att. iv. 15, 17, 18, r.
tained a copy of a fragment of it, which his son 3, ix. 3, 12, 15, vi. 1, 2, vii. 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 18,
Isaac had taken at Florence, and that fragment, 26, viii. 4, 5, 10, x. 2, xiii. 2, 33, ad Fam. xii.
which is now the only part of the Anaplus known 24, 30. ) A son of this Dionysius is mentioned by
to us, is printed in Du Cange's Constantinopolis Seneca (Controv. i. 4. )
Christiana, in Hudson's Geogr. Minor. vol. iii. , 19. A slave of Cicero, who employed him as
and in Fabricius, Bibl. Gr. iv. p. 664, note lo reader and librarian; but Dionysius robbed his
(Comp. Bernhardy in his edition of Dionys. Perieg. master of several books, and then escaped to Illy-
P. 492. )
ricum. (Cic. ad Att. ix. 3, ad Fam. v. 9, 10, 11,
13. DIONYSIUS Cassius. (Cassius, p. 626. ] 13, xiii. 77. )
14. DIONYSIUS Cato. (Cato, p. 634. ]
20. Of COLOPHON, forged conjointly with Zo
15. Of Chalcis, a Greek historian, who lived pyrus some works which they published under
before the Christian era. He wrote a work on the name of Menippus, the Cynic. (Diog. Laërt.
the foundation of towns (ktioeis) in five books, vi. 100; Schol. ad Aristoph. Av. 1299. )
which is frequently referred to by the ancients. 21. Of CORINTH, an epic poet, who wrote some
A considerable number of fragments of the work metrical works, such as Advice for Life (umuenkai),
hare thus been preserved, but its author is other- on Causes (attia; Suid. s. v. AlovÚO LOS; Plut. Amat.
wise unknown. (Marcian. Heracl. Peripl. p. 5; 17), and Meteorologica. In prose he wrote a
Suid. s. v. Xalki IKT ; Harpocrat. s. v. 'Hpaioria commentary on Hesiod. Suidas also mentions a
and 'Hpalov teixos; Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. i. 558, periegesis of the earth, but this is in all probability
1024, ir. 264, ad Aristoph. Nub. 397 ; Dionys. Hal. the production of a different person, Dionysius Pe
A. R. i. 72 ; Strab. xii. p. 566 ; Plut. de Malign. riegetes. (Eudoc. p. 132. ) Some also believe that
Herod. 22 ; Scymnus, 115; Clem. Alex. Strom. i. he was the author of a metrical work, Albiká, which
p. 144; Zenob. Proverb. v. 64; Apostol. xviii. was likewise the work of a different person. (Bern-
25; Photius, s. vv. Ipažidinn, Tenulo eis ; Eudoc. hardy, in his edit. of Dionys. Perieg. p. 492, &c. )
p. 438. )
22. Bishop of CORINTH in the latter half of the
16. Surnamed Chalcus (ó Xatkows), an ancient second century after Christ, distinguished himself
Attic poet and orator, who derived his surname among the prelates of his time by his piety, his
from his having advised the Athenians to coin eloquence, and the holiness of his life. He not
brass money for the purpose of facilitating traffic. only watched with the greatest care over his own
(Athen. xv. p. 669. ) Of his oratory we know diocese, but shewed a deep interest in the welfare
nothing ; but his poems, chiefly elegies, are often of other communities and provinces, to which he
referred to and quoted. (Plut. Nic. 5; Aristot. addressed admonitory epistles. He died the death
Rhet. iii. 2; Athen. xv. pp.
