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Dion (408-353 BC)

Tyrant of Syracuse. When his brother-in-law the tyrant Dionysius I died 367, Dion invited Plato, the philosopher, to Syracuse with a view to making Dionysius II a philsopher-king. But ill feeling was stirred up between Dion and Dionysius by the historian Philistus. Plato narrowly escaped with his life and Dion was banished. He lived in exile at Athens until he returned to Syracuse 357 with a small force and drove Dionysius II into exile. With one brief interval Dion remained in power until he was assassinated.
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Dion also conspired against Dionysius the Younger, seeing his subjects desirous of a conspiracy, and that he himself was always drunk: and even a man's friends will do this if they despise him; for from the confidence he places in them, they think that they shall not be found out.
A Treatise on Government by Aristotle View in context
299 PERSE DION GENOS to PERSE, DION GENOS, was thought to have been Dius) was a native of Cyme in Aeolis, where he was a seafaring trader and, perhaps, also a farmer.
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
To him we owe the Brasidas, the Dion, the Epaminondas, the Scipio of old, and I must think we are more deeply indebted to him than to all the ancient writers.
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