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Tyrant of Sicily;[1] he wrote tragedies and comedies and historical works.[2]
"Others, too, became despots, but the tyranny of Dionysius was responsible for the greatest and most extreme ill-treatment [inflicted] on any state."[3]
Concerning the tyrant Dionysius and Philoxenus the dithyrambic poet, see in the [entry] 'take me away to the quarries'.[4]

Dionusios, Sikelias turannos: egrapse tragôidias kai kômôidias kai historika. hoti kai heteroi eturannêsan, all' hê teleutaia kai megistê kakôsis pasais tais polesin hê Dionusiou turannis egeneto. peri Dionusiou tou turannou zêtei peri Philoxenou dithurambopoiou en tôi apage me eis tas latomias.

[1] Dionysius I of Syracuse (c.430-367 BCE).
[2] See generally Kassel-Austin, PCG V p. 41.
[3] The quotation, left unattributed by Adler both here and when it reappears at tau 1187, derives from Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 20.7.2. The adjective teleutai/a here does more probably mean ultimate in the sense of "greatest" than (as the Loeb translator E.Cary had it) last in a simple chronological sequence; and for ka/kwsis, "ill-treatment", see LSJ s.v. ("ill-usage of persons by their natural protectors" - a tyrant in this instance).
[4] alpha 2862; see also epsiloniota 291 and tau 1187.

David Whitehead (modified translation; cosmetics) on 26 March 2001@05:04:32.
David Whitehead (revisited first vetting, after correspondence with translator: aspects of original translation reinstated; notes modified and augmented) on 4 April 2001@03:44:26.
David Whitehead (restorative cosmetics) on 20 December 2002@05:08:19.
David Whitehead (more keywords; cosmetics) on 12 July 2012@06:44:57.
David Whitehead (another note) on 23 December 2014@07:09:53.
David Whitehead (adjusted note-numbering) on 11 November 2015@04:54:55.

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