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DINWIDDIE, ROBERT (1693-1770)

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DINWIDDIE, See also:ROBERT (1693-1770) , See also:English colonial See also:governor 'Io ropia), Dio See also:Cassius had dedicated to the See also:emperor See also:Severus of See also:Virginia, was See also:born near See also:Glasgow, See also:Scotland, in 1693. From the an See also:account of various dreams and prodigies which had position of customs clerk in Bermuda, which he held in 1727-1738, presaged his See also:elevation to the See also:throne (perhaps the 'EvS a he was promoted to be surveyor-See also:general of the customs " of attributed to Dio by Suidas), and had also written a See also:biography the See also:southern ports of the See also:continent of See also:America," as a See also:reward 1 of his See also:fellow-countryman See also:Arrian. The See also:history of See also:Rome, which consisted of eighty books,—and, after the example of See also:Livy, was divided into decades, began with the landing of See also:Aeneas in See also:Italy, and was continued as far as the reign of See also:Alexander Severus (222–235). Of this See also:great See also:work we possess books 36-6o, containing the history of events from 68 B.C.–A.D. 47; books 36 and 55-6o are imperfect. We also have See also:part of 35 and 36-8o in the See also:epitome of See also:John See also:Xiphilinus, an See also:firth-See also:century See also:Byzantine See also:monk. For the earlier See also:period the loss of Dio's work is partly supplied by the history of See also:Zonaras, who followed him closely. Numerous fragments are also contained in the excerpts of See also:Constantine Porphyrogenitus. Dio's work is a most important authority for the history of the last years of the See also:republic and the See also:early See also:empire. His See also:industry was great and the various important offices he held afforded him ample opportunities for See also:historical investigation. His See also:style, though marred by Latinisms, is clearer than that of his See also:model See also:Thucydides, and his narrative shows the See also:hand of the practised soldier and politician; the See also:language is correct and See also:free from affectation. But he displays a superstitious regard for miracles and prophecies; he has nothing to say against the arbitrary acts of the emperors, which he seems to take as a See also:matter of course; and his work, although far more than a See also:mere compilation, is not remarkable for impartiality, vigour of See also:judgment or See also:critical historical See also:faculty.

The best edition with notes is that of H. S. Reimar (1750–1752), new ed. by F. G. Sturz (1824–1836) ; See also:

text by I. Melber (1890 See also:foil.), with account of previous See also:editions, and U. P. Boissevain (1895–1901) ; See also:translation by H. B. See also:Foster (See also:Troy, New See also:York, 1905 foil.), with full bibliography; see also W. See also:Christ, Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur (1898), p. 675; E.

Schwartz in Pauly-Wissowa's Realencyclopadie, iii. pt. 2 (1899) ; C. See also:

Wachsmuth, Einleitung in das Studium der See also:alien Geschichte (1895).

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