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In his youth, he was an admirer and pupil of Plato, whom Dionysius had invited to Syracuse; and he used every effort to inculcate the maxims of his master in the mind of the tyrant. The stern morality of Dion was distasteful to the younger Dionysius, and the historian Philistus, a faithful supporter of despotic power, succeeded in procuring his banishment on account of alleged intrigues with the Carthaginians.
The exiled philosopher retired to Athens, where he was at first permitted to enjoy his revenues in peace; but the intercession of Plato (who had again visited Syracuse to procure Dion's recall) only served to exasperate the tyrant, and at length. provoked him to confiscate the property of Dion, and give his wife to another. This last outrage roused Dion. Assembling a small force at Zacynthus, he sailed to Sicily in 357 BC and was received with demonstrations of joy. Dionysius, who was in Italy, returned to Sicily, but was defeated and obliged to flee. Dion himself was soon after supplanted by the intrigues of Heracleides, and again banished. The incompetency of the new leader and the cruelties of Apollocrates, the son of Dionysius, soon led to his recall. He had, however, scarcely made himself master of Sicily when the people began to express their discontent with his tyrannical conduct, and he was assassinated by Callippus, an Athenian who had accompanied him in his expedition.
See Lives by Plutarch and Cornelius Nepos (cf. Diod. Sic xvi. 6-20) and in modern times by T Lau (1860).
This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dion (Tyrant of Syracuse)."
"DION" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "someone from Zeus". |
Date "DION" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
"DION" is a common misspelling or typo for: dean, demon, din, doing, don, doom, ion. |
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Screenplays | So let me get this straight; whenever a black guy does well, starts wearing Dockers, buys a few Celine Dion records, and sleeps with a White chick, you automatically say he's sold out? (Undercover Brother; writing credit: Eran Merav) Look at him Celine Dion. (South Park; writing credit: Rocco Siffredi) Oh Celine Dion, what have you done? (South Park; writing credit: Rocco Siffredi) | |
Song Titles | Beauty & The Beast (performing artist: Peabo Bryson & Celine Dion) I'm Your Angel (performing artist: R. Kelly & Celine Dion) | |
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 | The streets of New York from the well known play by Dion Boucicault. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Andrew Mack, America's greatest Irish comedian in Dion Boucicault's masterpiece, Arrah-Na-Pogue. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | H.J. Sargents Comedy Company (organization no. 4) in Dion Boucicault's farcical comedy, "Contempt of court". Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He had bivouacked at Dion le Mont, and started on at dawn. |
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| "DION" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DION" is used about 32 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 32 | 61,292 |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "DION" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Dion | First name Female | 1,000 | 4,071 |
| Dion | First name Male | 10,000 | 690 |
| Dion | Last name | 4,000 | 3,315 |
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| "DION" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "someone from Zeus". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "DION." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Dionysios | Male | Ancient Greek | Dionysos |
| Dionysius | Male | Ancient Roman | Dionysios |
| Deon | Male | English | Dion |
| Deonne | Male | English | Dion |
| Dion | Male | English | Dionysios |
| Dione | Female | English | Dion |
| Dionne | Female | English | Dion |
| Dion | Male | French | Dionysios |
| Dionysios | Male | Greek | Dionysos |
| Dionysos | Male | Greek Mythology | N/A |
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Beginning with "DION": Dion-bouton. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "DION": accordion, collodion, enchiridion, gammadion. (additional references) | |
Words containing "DION": accordionist, accordionists, accordions, collodions, enchiridions, menadione, menadiones, meridional, meridionally, meridionals, radionuclide, radionuclides. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: nodi. | |
| Words within the letters "d-i-n-o" | |
-1 letter: din, don, ion, nod. | |
-2 letters: do, id, in, no, od, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-i-n-o" | |
+1 letter: danio, dingo, doing, indol, indow, iodin, poind, tondi. | |
+2 letters: adjoin, adonis, anodic, boding, bodkin, codein, coding, codlin, coined, conoid, daikon, daimon, danios, dinero, dioxan, dioxin, disown, diuron, dobbin, doings, doling, domain, domine, doming, domino, donsie, doping, dormin, dosing, doting, dowing, dozing, durion, emodin, foined, ganoid, guidon, hoddin, hoiden, honied, indigo, indole, indols, indoor, indows, infold, inroad, iodine, iodins, ironed, joined, ladino, monied, nevoid, nimrod, noised, nordic, oinked, onside, opined, ordain, poinds, pongid, ponied, unipod, window. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 49 4F 4E |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01001001 01001111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D I O N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0049 004F 004E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38434948 |
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