Διονύσιος
Dionysius, Dionysios
Translated by Tony Natoli3 Feb 2000Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
Tyrant of Sicily;1 he wrote tragedies and comedies and historical works.2
"Others, too, became despots, but the tyranny of Dionysius was responsible for the greatest and most extreme ill-treatment [inflicted] on any state."3
Concerning the tyrant Dionysius and Philoxenus the dithyrambic poet, see in the [entry] 'take me away to the quarries'.4
"Others, too, became despots, but the tyranny of Dionysius was responsible for the greatest and most extreme ill-treatment [inflicted] on any state."3
Concerning the tyrant Dionysius and Philoxenus the dithyrambic poet, see in the [entry] 'take me away to the quarries'.4
Greek original · Adler’s text
Διονύσιος, Σικελίας τύραννος· ἔγραψε τραγῳδίας καὶ κωμῳδίας καὶ ἱστορικά. ὅτι καὶ ἕτεροι ἐτυράννησαν, ἀλλ' ἡ τελευταία καὶ μεγίστη κάκωσις πάσαις ταῖς πόλεσιν ἡ Διονυσίου τυραννὶς ἐγένετο. περὶ Διονυσίου τοῦ τυράννου ζήτει περὶ Φιλοξένου διθυραμβοποιοῦ ἐν τῷ ἄπαγέ με εἰς τὰς λατομίας.
Betacode
*dionu/sios, *sikeli/as tu/rannos: e)/graye tragw|di/as kai\ kwmw|di/as kai\ i(storika/. o(/ti kai\ e(/teroi e)tura/nnhsan, a)ll' h( teleutai/a kai\ megi/sth ka/kwsis pa/sais tai=s po/lesin h( *dionusi/ou turanni\s e)ge/neto. peri\ *dionusi/ou tou= tura/nnou zh/tei peri\ *filoce/nou diqurambopoiou= e)n tw=| a)/page/ me ei)s ta\s latomi/as.
Notes (3)
- [1] Dionysius I of Syracuse (c.430-367 BCE).↩
- 2See generally Kassel-Austin, PCG V p. 41. ↩
- 3The quotation, left unattributed by Adler both here and when it reappears at tau 1187, derives from Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 20.7.2. The adjective
teleutai/a here does more probably mean ultimate in the sense of "greatest" than (as the Loeb translator E.Cary had it) last in a simple chronological sequence; and forka/kwsis , "ill-treatment", see LSJ s.v. ("ill-usage of persons by their natural protectors" - a tyrant in this instance). ↩- 4alpha 2862; see also epsiloniota 291 and tau 1187.
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Revision history6 revisions · last 11 Nov 2015
- adjusted note-numbering — David Whitehead
- another note — David Whitehead
- more keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- restorative cosmetics — David Whitehead
- revisited first vetting, after correspondence with translator: aspects of original translation reinstated; notes modified and augmented — David Whitehead
- modified translation; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Tony Natoli