In the controversies over rebaptism of lapsed Christians, Firmilian was an opponent of the stringent policy of antipope Novatian ( see Novatianism ), for Dionysius in 252 – 53 writes that the bishops of Cilicia, Cappadocia, and Palestine had invited him to a synod at Antioch to repudiate Novatianism ( Eusebius, VI, xlvi, 3 ).

In a letter to Pope Sixtus II ( 257 – 58 ), Dionysius mentions that in the controversy over rebaptism of the lapsed Pope Stephen had refused communication with Helenus of Tarsus, Firmilian, and all Cilicia and Cappadocia, and the neighbouring lands ( Eusebius, VII, v, 3-4 ), a subject touched on in the sole surviving letter of Firmilian, a response to Cyprian.

* The Castle of Euryalos, built nine kilometres outside the city by Dionysius the Elder and which was one of the most powerful fortresses of ancient times.

* Birth of Jesus, as assigned by Dionysius Exiguus in his anno Domini era according to at least one scholar.

" This venerable etymology is at least as old as Dionysius of Halicarnassus, who said " And there is no reason that the Greeks should not have called them by this name, both from their living in towers and from the name of one of their rulers.

The one at the Falcomatà Seaside dates to the 5th-4th century BC and is attributed to the city's reconstruction by Dionysius II of Syracuse.

It was a Greek city, and one of the latest of all the cities in Sicily that could claim a purely Greek origin, having been founded by the elder Dionysius in 396 or 395 BC.

It was formerly attributed to Dicaearchus, but the initial letters of the first twenty-three lines show that it was really the work of one " Dionysius, son of Calliphon ".

However, at least one scholar thinks Dionysius placed the incarnation of Jesus in the next year, AD 1.

Ancient pictures of the Roman twins usually follow certain symbolic traditions, depending on the legend they follow: they either show a shepherd, the she-wolf, the twins under a fig tree, and one or two birds ( Livy, Plutarch ); or they depict two shepherds, the she-wolf, the twins in a cave, seldom a fig tree, and never any birds ( Dionysius of Halicarnassus ).

Landing at Tauromenium ( Taormina ) in the summer, Timoleon faces two armies, one under Dionysius and the other under Hicetas ( tyrant of nearby Leontini ), who has also called in Carthaginian forces.

Dionysius of Byzantium mentions a Roman shrine to Apollo on one of the Cyanean Rocks, and the 16th-century French traveller Petrus Gyllius thought the altar was a remnant of that shrine.

Virgil states that he named the city in honor of his son, Pallas, although Pausanias, Livy and Dionysius of Halicarnassus say that Evander's birth city was Pallantium, thus he named the new city after the one in Arcadia.

" Every citizen of Rome gave him one day's ration of food, although Dionysius of Halicarnassus does not explain what logistically such a contribution should mean and how and when it was delivered.

Consequently one year since the Incarnation would have meant 25 March 1, meaning that Dionysius placed the Incarnation on 25 March 1 BC.

Only one scholar, Georges Declerq ( Declerq, 2002 ), thinks that Dionysius placed the Incarnation and Nativity in AD 1, basing his conclusion on the structure of Dionysius's Easter tables.

When the Lacedaemonians had settled the affairs of Greece to their own taste, they dispatched Aristus, one of their distinguished men, to Syracuse, ostensibly pretending that they would overthrow the government, but in truth with intent to increase the power of the tyranny ; for they hoped that by helping to establish the rule of Dionysius they would obtain his ready service because of their benefactions to him.

To his Frankfurt period belong the editions of Pausanias, Herodotus, Dionysius Halicarnassensis ( one of his best pieces of work, highly praised by Carsten Niebuhr ), Aristotle, the Greek and Latin sources for the history of the Roman emperors and the Peri syntaxeos of Apollonius Dyscolus.

Dionysius Mussafia Musaphia, an adherent of Spinoza, likewise became one of Sabbatai's followers.

Tillman was the younger brother of George Dionysius Tillman ( 1826 – 1902 ), a U. S. Representative from South Carolina, serving from 1879 to 1893 ( with one interruption ).

The treatise on " Mechanics " in Dionysius Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia was partly written by him ; and his interest in more purely astronomical questions was shown by two communications to the Astronomical Society's Memoirs for 1831 – 1833 — one on an observation of Saturn's outer ring, the other on a method of determining longitude by means of lunar eclipses.

* Leonard Welsted – The Works of Dionysius Longinus, on the Sublime ( one of the earliest translations of περί ύπσος in English )

Dionysius I of Tel Mahre ( 818 – 45 ) was one of the most celebrated ninth-century patriarchs of the Syrian Orthodox Church.

In the Eastern Orthodox Church, Dionysius the Areopagite and Saint Denis of Paris are celebrated as one commemoration on 3 October.

Lysias lifted up his voice to denounce Dionysius as, next to Artaxerxes, the worst enemy of Hellas, and to impress upon the assembled Greeks that one of their foremost duties was to deliver Sicily from a hateful oppression.

Numa also invoked communicating with other deities, such as Muses ; hence naturally enough, the somewhat " pale " figure of Egeria was later categorized by the Romans as one of the Camenae, deities who came to be equated with the Greek Muses as Rome fell under the cultural influence of Greece ; so Dionysius of Halicarnassus listed Egeria among the Muses.

According to Dionysius he was elected by the people, although according to Livius he was one of three chosen by his colleagues.

* Dionysius II goes into exile once more after the successful invasion by Timoleon of Corinth.

However, by the sixth and seventh centuries it had become obsolete and had been replaced by those of Victorius of Aquitaine and, more accurately, those of Dionysius Exiguus.

* Plato returns once more to Syracuse to teach the young Syracusan tyrant Dionysius II.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus ( 1. 61 – 62 ) states that Dardanus ' original home was in Arcadia where Dardanus and his elder brother Iasus ( elsewhere more commonly called Iasion ) reigned as kings following Atlas.

Dionysius, the more detailed source, reports that the father had left to his sons the decision to fight then raised his hands to the heavens to thank the gods.

Among the persons known by the name Dionysius, or using the French version Denis, some of the more famous were:

A more authentic tradition represents Lysias as having spoken his own Olympiacus at the Olympic festival of 388 BC, to which Dionysius I of Syracuse had sent a magnificent embassy.

The report about his sudden fits of anger, his greed, and his debauchery, are probably derived from a very impure source: Athenaeus and Diogenes Laërtius can adduce as authority for them scarcely anything more than the abuse in some spurious letters of Dionysius the Younger, who was banished by Dion, with the cooperation of Speusippus.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus compared his style to Lysias, although Isaeus was more given to employing sophistry.

Another more gruesome legend claims that Dionysius carved the cave in its shape so that it would amplify the screams of prisoners being tortured in it.

Dionysius was probably pressured by the invasions of the Indo-Scythians, and also had to deal with Hippostratos, a more important king who had inherited the western part of the kingdom of Apollodotus II.

:* Although the calculations of Dionysius Exiguus put the birth of Jesus in the year that in consequence is called AD 1, history places his birth more likely some time between 6 and 4 BC.

The works of this period were more encyclopaedic and scholastic, and include the biblical commentators Ishodad of Merv and Dionysius bar Salibi.

Together they attempted to restructure the government to be more moderate, with Dionysius as the archetypal philosopher-king ( see the Seventh Letter of Plato ).