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    Dio Chrysostom (/ˈdiːoʊ ˈkrɪsəstəm, krɪˈsɒstəm/; Ancient Greek: Δίων Χρυσόστομος Dion Chrysostomos), Dio of Prusa or Cocceianus Dio (c. 40 – c. 115 AD)...
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  • (1st century BC) Dio Chrysostom, Roman philosopher (AD 40–120) Cassius Dio, Roman historian (AD 160–230) Cassius Dio (consul 291) Dio Lequaglie (born 1963)...
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    Byzantine tradition maintains that Dio's mother was the daughter or sister of the Greek orator and philosopher, Dio Chrysostom; however, this relationship has...
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    pretensions and prescribes him a stiff draught from the water of Lethe. Dio Chrysostom, in his fourth oration on kingship, ascribes a simple moral to the anecdote:...
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    for    her daughter and dear parents. — Sappho, fragment 16 (Voigt) Dio Chrysostom gives a completely different account of the story, questioning Homer's...
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    Piering. Downloaded 14 June 2022. Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 6, 18, 21; Dio Chrysostom, Orations, viii. 1–4; Aelian, x. 16; Stobaeus, Florilegium, 13.19 IEP...
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    of Trajan's rule. Besides this, Pliny the Younger's Panegyricus and Dio Chrysostom's orations are the best surviving contemporary sources. Both are adulatory...
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    he would amass a large army and would return to Rome to destroy it. Dio Chrysostom, a Greek philosopher and historian, wrote "seeing that even now everybody...
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  • for orators. Chrysostomos or Chrysostom may refer to: Dio Chrysostom (40–120), Greco-Roman philosopher John Chrysostom (347–407), bishop of Constantinople...
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    The Loeb Classical Library (LCL; named after James Loeb; /loʊb/, German: [løːp]) is a series of books originally published by Heinemann in London, but...
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