Dionysius, Papirius
praefectus annonae under Commodus. Leaving procured by his intrigues the destruction of the favourite Cleander [CLEANDER,] he himself soon after fell a victim to the cruelty of the tyrant. (D. C. 72.13, 14.)
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.