wise masters" (_Italian version_).

In the _French_ version, the father is called
"Dolop'athos."--_Sandabar's Parables_.

DIOG'ENES, Greek cynic, who carried a lantern at noon, to search for
an honest man.

DIOG'ENES (4 _syl_.), the negro slave of the cynic philosopher Michael
Agelestes (4 _syl_.).--Sir W. Scott, _Count Robert of Paris_ (time,
Rufus).

DI'OMEDE (3 _syl_.), fed his horses on human flesh, and he was himself
eaten by his horse, being thrown to it by Hercules.

DION (_Lord_), father of Euphra'sia. Euphrasia is in love with
Philaster, heir to the crown of Messi'na. Disguised as a page,
Euphrasia assumes the name of Bellario and enters the service
of Philaster.--Beaumont and Fletcher, _Philaster_ or _Love Lies
a-bleeding_ (1638).

(There is considerable resemblance between "Euphrasia" and "Viola" in
Shakespeare's _Twelfth Night_, 1614).

DIONAE'AN CAESAR, Julius Caesar, who claimed descent from Venus, called
Dione from her mother. AEneas was son of _Venus_ and Anchises.

Ecce, Dionaei processit Caesaris astrum.

Virgil, _Eclogues_, ix. 47.

DIO'NE (3 _syl_.), mother of Aphrodite (_Venus_), Zeus or Jove being
the father. Venus herself is sometimes called Dione.

Oh, bear ... thy treasures to the green recess,
Where young Dione strays; with sweetest airs
Entice her forth to lend her angel form
For Beauty's honored image.

Akenside, _Pleasures of Imagination_, (1744).

DIONYS'IA, wife of Cleon, governor of Tarsus. Pericles prince of Tyre
commits to her charge his infant daughter Mari'na, supposed to be
motherless. When her foster-child is fourteen years old, Dionysia, out
of jealousy, employs a man to murder her, and the people of Tarsus,
hearing thereof, set fire to her house, and both Dionysia and Cleon
are burnt to death in the flames,--Shakespeare, _Pericles, Prince of
Tyre_ (1608).

DIONYS'IUS, tyrant of Syracuse, dethroned Evander, and imprisoned him
in a dungeon deep in a huge rock, intending to starve him to death.
But Euphrasia, having gained access to him, fed him from her own
breast. Timoleon invaded Syracuse, and Dionysius, seeking safety in a
tomb, saw there Evander the deposed king, and was about to kill him,
when Euphrasia rushed forward, struck the tyrant to the heart, and he
fell dead at her feet.--A. Murphy, _The Grecian Daughter_ (1772).

[Illustration] In this tragedy there are several gross historical
errors. In act i. the author tells us it was Dionysius t