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1. Dĭŏnȳsia, ae, f., a noted dancer, Cic. Rosc. Com. 8; Gell. 1, 5.

2. Dĭŏnȳsĭa, ōrum, v. Dionysus.

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.

Dĭŏnȳsus or -os, i, m., = Διόνυσος,

  1. I. the Greek name of Bacchus (not in the Aug. poets), Cic. N. D. 3, 21; 23; Att. ap. Macr. S. 6, 5; Plaut. Stich. 5, 2, 13; Aus. Epigr. 30.
  2. II. Derivv.,
    1. A. Dĭŏnȳsĭus, a, um, adj., of or pertaining to Bacchus; Dĭŏ-nȳsia, ōrum, n., = Διονύσια, τά (sc. ἱερά), the festival of Bacchus, in Greece celebrated every three years (Lat. Bacchanalia), Plaut. Curc. 5, 2, 45; id. Cist. 1, 1, 91; 1, 3, 8; id. Ps. 1, 1, 57; Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 110 Don.; id. ib. 4, 4, 11.
    2. B. Dĭŏnȳsĭas, ădis, f., a precious stone, of a black color, Plin. 37, 10, 57, § 157.
    3. C. Dĭŏnȳsĭăcus, a, um, adj., of or relating to Bacchus: ludi, i. q. Liberalia, Aus. Ecl. de Feriis Rom. 29.