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-“From the time when Dionysius the Sicilian died and his son Dionysius reigned in his stead ... 104 years, in the archonship of Nausigenes at Athens （1368 B.C.）” Parian Chronicle:
+“From the time when Dionysius the Sicilian died and his son Dionysius reigned in his stead ... 104 years, in the archonship of Nausigenes at Athens （1368 B.C.）”
+Parian Chronicle
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-“His son Dionysius succeeded him and reigned twelve years.” Diodorus of Sicily Historical Library:
+“His son Dionysius succeeded him and reigned twelve years.”
+Diodorus of Sicily Historical Library
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-“Dionysius: —Son of the Sicilian despot, himself a despot and a philosopher. His writings are Letters and a treatise On the Poems of Epicharmus .” Suidas Lexicon:
+“Dionysius: —Son of the Sicilian despot, himself a despot and a philosopher. His writings are Letters and a treatise On the Poems of Epicharmus .”
+Suidas Lexicon
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-“[Dionysius]: When he was driven from power he was asked ‘What good have Plato and philosophy been to you?’and replied ‘They have taught me to bear patiently a reversal of fortune such as this.’” Plutarch Sayings of Kings
+“[Dionysius]: When he was driven from power he was asked ‘What good have Plato and philosophy been to you?’and replied ‘They have taught me to bear patiently a reversal of fortune such as this.’”
+Plutarch Sayings of Kings
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-“Dionysius the despot when expelled from Syracuse taught school at Corinth.” Cicero Tusculan Disputations:
+“Dionysius the despot when expelled from Syracuse taught school at Corinth.”
+Cicero Tusculan Disputations
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-“Dionysius the Second once spent some time with Philip son of Amyntas, in the course of which, naturally enough, points arose for discussion, among others this: Philip asked his guest how it was that having inherited so great a position he had been unable to keep it. The answer was apt enough: ‘My father left me all he had with one exception, and that was the luck with which he had won and kept the rest.’ ” Aelian Historical Miscellanies
+“Dionysius the Second once spent some time with Philip son of Amyntas, in the course of which, naturally enough, points arose for discussion, among others this: Philip asked his guest how it was that having inherited so great a position he had been unable to keep it. The answer was apt enough: ‘My father left me all he had with one exception, and that was the luck with which he had won and kept the rest.’ ”
+Aelian Historical Miscellanies
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     Odyssey 12. 428
-” Plutarch Life of Dion:
+Plutarch Life of Dion
-See also Plat. Epp. 1-3, 13, Justin. 21. 5, Ael. V.H. 4. 18, Plut. Dion 9 ff, Diog. L. 3. 21, 23, 2. 61, 66 ff, Luc. Menipp. 13, Paras. 32 f, Ath. 12. 541.
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-====== Inscription ======
-“Dionysius named himself a son of Apollo, writing on his tomb:
+See also Plat. Epp. 1-3, 13, Justin. 21. 5, Ael. V.H. 4. 18, Plut. Dion 9 ff, Diog. L. 3. 21, 23, 2. 61, 66 ff, Luc. Menipp. 13, Paras. 32 f, Ath. 12. 541.
+====== Inscription ======
-    sprung from a Dorian1 mother's converse with Phoebus
+Dionysius named himself a son of Apollo, writing on his tomb:
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+//sprung from a Dorian1 mother's converse with Phoebus//
-” Plutarch The Fortune of Alexander:
+Plutarch The Fortune of Alexander:
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 To Apollo
-“For when you addressed the God at Delphi, as those who were then enquiring of the oracle reported, you flattered him by using this very word （ Hail ）, and, as I am told, you have written:
+For when you addressed the God at Delphi, as those who were then enquiring of the oracle reported, you flattered him by using this very word （ Hail ）, and, as I am told, you have written:
-    Hail, and preserve in happiness the life of a despot.
+//Hail, and preserve in happiness the life of a despot.//
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-” Plato Letter to Dionysius:
+Plato Letter to Dionysius
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 To Asclepius
-“[on Democles the flatterer of Dionysius]: ... He said that the difference between him and his fellow-ambassadors arose because after supper his colleagues got some of the crew to join them in singing some of the Paeans of Phrynichus and Stesichorus and even of Pindar, whereas he, with the aid of any of the guests who chose, went through the Paeans composed by Dionysius himself. And he undertook to prove his statement. While his accusers, he declared, could remember not even the number of those songs, he himself was ready to sing them all from beginning to end. This calmed Dionysius, and Democles went on: ‘You would do me a favour, Dionysius, if you were to ask one of the professional musicians2 to teach me the Paean you have composed to Asclepius; for this, I understand, is what you have been engaged upon.’” Timaeus in Athenaeus Doctors at Dinner
+“[on Democles the flatterer of Dionysius]: ... He said that the difference between him and his fellow-ambassadors arose because after supper his colleagues got some of the crew to join them in singing some of the Paeans of Phrynichus and Stesichorus and even of Pindar, whereas he, with the aid of any of the guests who chose, went through the Paeans composed by Dionysius himself. And he undertook to prove his statement. While his accusers, he declared, could remember not even the number of those songs, he himself was ready to sing them all from beginning to end. This calmed Dionysius, and Democles went on: ‘You would do me a favour, Dionysius, if you were to ask one of the professional musicians2 to teach me the Paean you have composed to Asclepius; for this, I understand, is what you have been engaged upon.’”
+Timaeus in Athenaeus Doctors at Dinner
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 As Doris of Locri was D.'s mother and Locri a Dorian city, a pun may be intended.