Dionysius
cited 2 times by 2 works in the library · not held
also in the atlas: Dionysius the figure
The library holds nothing under this name. Two of its books reach for it anyway — that is what puts it on the corpus's wanted list.
2 neutral
cited by
2 citations · from 2 works-
De recta ratione audiendi Plutarch 1 neutral 1 citation
Dionysius's saying is reported and applied analogically without further argument for or against it.
So that the saying of Dionysius is very applicable to them, who, being one day extremely pleased with an harper that played excellently well before him, promised the fellow a great reward, yet afterwards would give him nothing, pretending he had hept his word;
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Galba Plutarch 1 neutral 1 citation
Dionysius is explicitly named as the source of a reported epithet, cited neutrally to introduce a historical exemplum.
And yet the Pheraean who ruled Thessaly for ten months and was then promptly killed, was called the tragedy-tyrant by Dionysius, with scornful reference to the quickness of the change.
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the marks
- authority
- relied on as a source of legitimacy
- neutral
- identified or reported
- refuted
- argued against
- extended
- developed or continued
- endorsed
- agreed with
- roman
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- italic
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