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Dionysius

45. A son or disciple of TRYPHON, a Greek grammarian, who lived about B. C. 50. (Steph. Byz. s.v. Ὄα, Μυρρινοῦς, &c.) He was the author of a work περὶ ὀνομάτων, which consisted of at least eleven books, and is often referred to by Stephanus of Byzantium and Harpocration. (Comp. Athen. 6.255, xi. p. 503, xiv. p. 641.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.