Dionysius of Halicarnassus

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1. died 7? b.c., Greek rhetorician and historian in Rome.

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Dionysius of Halicarnassus British  

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1. died ?7 _bc , Greek historian and rhetorician; author of a history of Rome

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Dionysius of Halicarnassus

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, the first century BC scholar, called Homer the source from which every sea, every fountain, every river flows.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 13, 2019

The De compositione verborum of Dionysius of Halicarnassus received its first printing at the hands of Aldus in 1508 and was edited again by Estienne in 1546, and by Sturm in 1550.

From Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism by Clark, Donald Lemen

A contemporary of Livy was the Greek writer Dionysius of Halicarnassus, who wrote a work called Roman Antiquities, which covered the history of Rome down to 265 B. C.

From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly

The Roman Archaeologia of Dionysius of Halicarnassus, who fifty years earlier had written in twenty books the early events of Rome, probably suggested the division and the name of the work.

From Josephus by Bentwich, Norman

The common narrative of Ephorus is repeated by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and is evidently invented to account for the name Παρθενίαι, which Antiochus declines to explain.1359.Xen.

From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried