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Diogeniānus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Διογενειανός). A Greek grammarian of Heraclea. About the middle of the second century A.D. he made extracts, in five books, from the great collection of glosses compiled about a century before by Pamphilus. These extracts form the foundation of the lexicon of Hesychius (q.v.). A collection of proverbs made by him is preserved in an abridged form. ...

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Dionysius Chalcus in Wikipedia

Dionysius Chalcus (Greek: Διονύσιος ὁ Χαλκοῦς) was an ancient Athenian poet and orator. According to Athenaeus, he was called Chalcus ("brazen") because he advised the Athenians to adopt a brass coinage (xv. p. 669). His speeches have not survived, but his poems are referred to and quoted by such authors as Plutarch (Nicias, 5), Aristotle (Rhetoric...

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Diophantus in Wikipedia

Diophantus of Alexandria (Greek: Διόφαντος ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς. b. between 200 and 214 CE, d. between 284 and 298 CE), sometimes called "the father of algebra", was an Alexandrian Greek mathematician and the author of a series of books called Arithmetica. These texts deal with solving algebraic equations, many of which are now lost. In studying Arithmeti...

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Diocles of Magnesia in Wikipedia

Diocles of Magnesia (Greek: Διοκλῆς) was an ancient Greek writer from Magnesia, who probably lived in the 2nd or 1st century BC.[1] The claim that he is the Diocles to whom Meleager of Gadara dedicated his anthology is questionable.[2] He authored works entitled Ἐπιδρομὴ τῶν φιλοσόφων (Philosophers overview) and Περὶ βίων φιλοσόφων (On the lives of...

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Diomedes Grammaticus in Wikipedia

Diomedes Grammaticus was a Latin grammarian who probably lived in the late 4th century AD. He wrote a grammatical treatise, known either as De Oratione et Partibus Orationis et Vario Genere Metrorum libri III or Ars grammatica in three books, dedicated to a certain Athanasius. Since he is frequently quoted by Priscian (e.g. lib. ix. pp. 861, 870, l...

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Diogenes of Apollonia in Wikipedia

Diogenes of Apollonia (fl. 425 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher, and was a native of the Milesian colony Apollonia in Thrace. He lived for some time in Athens. His doctrines are known chiefly from Diogenes Laertius and Simplicius. He believed air to be the one source of all being, and, as a primal force, it was intelligent. All other substances...

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Dionysius of Halicarnassus in Wikipedia

Dionysius of Halicarnassus (Greek: Διονύσιος Ἀλεξάνδρου Ἀλικαρνᾱσσεύς, Dionysios son of Aléxandros, of Halikarnassós, c. 60 BC–after 7 BC) was a Greek historian and teacher of rhetoric, who flourished during the reign of Caesar Augustus. Life He went to Rome after the termination of the civil wars, and spent twenty-two years in studying the Latin ...

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Diodorus Cronus in Wikipedia

Diodorus Cronus (Greek: Διόδωρος Κρόνος; died c. 284 BCE[1]) was a Greek philosopher of the Megarian school. He was most notable for logic innovations, including the problem of future contingents. Life He was a son of Ameinias of Iasus in Caria, and he lived at the court of Alexandria in the reign of Ptolemy Soter, who is said to have given him th...

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Diomēdes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A Roman grammarian of the fourth century A.D., whose work, entitled Ars Grammatica, has come down to us in three books. It is taken from the same sources as the contemporary work by Charisius (q.v.), and is chiefly valuable for the notices on literary history contained in the third book and taken from the De Poetis of Suetonius. The best text of Di...

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Diogenes Laërtius in Wikipedia

Diogenes Laertius (ancient Greek: Διογένης Λαέρτιος, Diogenes Laertios; fl. c. 3rd century) was a biographer of the Greek philosophers. Nothing is known about his life, but his surviving Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers is one of the principal surviving sources for the history of Greek philosophy. Life Nothing is definitively known about...

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