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n. - The tyrant of Syracuse who fought the Carthaginians (430-367 BC).

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  • Dionysius is said to have been martyred by the Parisii on the Seine, at the place now called Montmartre.
  • Yet did that Antiochus, who was also called Dionysius, become an origin of troubles again.
  • It was with the same purpose that he turned next to the early Fathers and to the writer called Dionysius the
  • Every male infant born among them was called Dionysius; and every female one Susan, after his favorite sister.
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