Lewis & Short

Dĭŏnȳsĭus, ii, m., = Διονύσιος, the name of several celebrated Greeks; esp.,

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. IV. A Stoic, contemporary with Cicero, Cic. Tusc. 2, 11.
  5. V. A musician of Thebes, Nep. Epam. 2, 1.
  6. VI. Name of a slave, Hor. S. 1, 6, 38.
  7. VII. Dionysius Cato, author of the Disticha de moribus ad filium, v. Teuffel, Roem. Lit. § 34, 2.