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DION , See also:

TYRANT (Gr. r6pavvos, master, ruler)

tyrant of See also:

Syracuse (408–353 B.C.), the son of Hipparinus, and See also:

BROTHER

brother-in-See also:

law of See also:

Dionysius the See also:

Elder. In his youth he, was an admirer and See also:

PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil of See also:

PLATO

Plato, whom Dionysius had invited to Syracuse; and he used every effort to inculcate the See also:

MAXIMS, LEGAL

maxims of his See also:

MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master in the mind of the tyrant. The stern morality of Dion was distasteful to the younger Dionysius, and the historian See also:

PHILISTUS

Philistus, a faithful supporter of despotic See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power, succeeded in procuring his banishment on See also:

account of alleged intrigues with the Carthaginians. The exiled philosopher retired to See also:

Athens, where he was at first permitted to enjoy his revenues in See also:

peace; but the intercession of Plato (who had again visited Syracuse to procure Dion's recall) only served to exasperate the tyrant, and at length provoked him to confiscate the See also:

PROPERTY

property of Dion, and give his wife to another. This last See also:

OUTRAGE (through O. Fr. ultrage, oltrage, oultrage, from Lat. ultra, beyond, exceeding, cf. Ital. oltraggio; the meaning has been influenced by connexion with " rage," anger)

outrage roused Dion. Assembling asmall force at Zacynthus, he sailed to See also:

SICILY (Ital. Sicilia)

Sicily (357) and was received with demonstrations of joy. Dionysius, who was in See also:

Italy, returned to Sicily, but was defeated and obliged to flee. Dion himself was soon after supplanted by the intrigues of Heracleides, and again banished. The incompetency of the new See also:

LEADER, BENJAMIN WILLIAMS (1831– )

leader and the cruelties of Apollocrates, the son of Dionysius, soon led to his recall. He had, however, scarcely made himself master of Sicily when the See also:

PEOPLE

people began to See also:

EXPRESS (through the French from the past participle of the Lat. exprimere, to press out, by transference used of representing objects in painting or sculpture, or of thoughts, &c. in words)

express their discontent with his tyrannical conduct, and he was assassinated by Callippus, a.n Athenian who had accompanied him in his expedition. See Lives by See also:

Plutarch and See also:

Cornelius See also:

Nepos (cf. Diod.

'Sic. xvi. 6-2o) and in See also:

MODERN

modern times by T. Lau (186o) ; see also SYRACUSE and SICILY : See also:

HISTORY

History.

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