domestic and mythic fowls, and presents “the names, residences and customs, talents, forces
and desires of birds, and the ways of catching them” (1.1). The first book treats land-
birds (beginning with eagle and finishing with phoenix), the second with water-birds (begin-
ning with water-eagle and finishing with swan), the third with bird-catching, with birdlime
(ixos: 3.1–6) and various other means and sometimes subtle traps (3.7–28).
Ed.: A. Garzya, Dionysii Ixeuticon (1963).
RE 5.1 (1903) 925 (#96), G. Knaack; OCD3 478 (#9–10), J.S. Rusten.
Arnaud Zucker
Dionusios of Rhodes (265 BCE – 200 CE)
Souda Delta-1181 mentions that some attribute to this historian the Guide to the Earth
(perie ̄ge ̄sis ge ̄s) by D A; the same work is also attributed to
D C. Contrast the epigrammatist of BNP 4.488 (#33).
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PTK
Dionusios of Samos (250 BCE – 95 CE)
A P., in G CMGen 4.13 (13.745–746 K.), records his recipe for a
lotion compounded of Eretrian earth (a grey clay), copper flake, ikhthuokolla, frank-
incense, verdigris, myrrh, and vinegar. He is probably distinct from other homonymous
medical authors; cf. D ( M?).
RE 5.1 (1903) 976 (#132), M. Wellmann.
GLIM
Dionusios of Utica, Cassius (90 BCE)
Agronomist who translated Mago the Carthaginian’s encyclopedic work on agriculture into
Greek, reducing it to eight books while adding a further 12 books of excerpts from the
Greek agricultural writers listed by V (RR 1.1.8–10). The complete volume was dedi-
cated to the praetor P. Sextilius, governor of Africa in 89 or 88 BCE. Dionusios discussed
cattle-breeding in his first book, leeks in the seventh (Mago frr.42, 63, Speranza). If the
alteration of S B, s.v. Ituke ̄, is correct, Cassius also composed a
work on botanical medicine (Rhizotomika) with illustrations of the flora discussed (P
25.8), including rape, parsley, orache, and asphodel (20.19, 113, 219, 22.67; cf. Schol. Nik.
519). Like the agricultural work, this collection may have been partly an anthology, drawing
on writers such as D K and K K (I). “Dionusios”
suggests a Greek-speaking freedman, perhaps from the household of Cassius Longinus, the
praetor (111 BCE) who escorted Iugurtha from Africa to Rome.
Ed.: Speranza (1971) 75–119.
Rawson (1985) 135; BNP 2 (2003) 1172, C. Hünemörder.
Philip Thibodeau
Dionusodo ̄ros (Pharm.) (300 BCE – 115 CE)
A, in G CMLoc 1.2 (12.409–410 K.), cites his alo ̄pekia remedy, composed of
ashed raw-hide in sharp vinegar (optionally add thapsia-juice), as a scalp-rinse to exfoliate
DIONUSODO ̄ROS (PHARM.)