DIONYSIUS, 
Abont-the a of his cpifcopate, in the 
year of our ol 260, or 261, the Chriftians at Czefarea, in 
fome een pec ocleg 3 upon whi en this ‘good bifhep wrote 
them a letter of fympathy and comfort, and fent fome per- 
fons to redeem fuch of the brethren as had been taken cap- 
This benefit was long held in grateful remembrance at 
— rea. Dionyfius was a writer in the abellian comro- 
verfy, and correfponde -d with his name-fake of Alexandria 
on this fubj: €. ra large a of es he wrote in this 
point ane Cited a wor Athanafius. He alfo ad- 
dreffed a letter totne bifho ‘Al lexandria upon the ee 
pof 
The Aces epiftles that have 
thing of his genuine writings rem 
ove-mentioned. ebius and Baill reprefent him as a 
perfon of great net and perfonal merit. From the 
fragments that remain of his writir es, it (ai. ‘iently appeate 
fa he concurred wt " other Cariftians ot that time in ac- 
knowledging the divine {c-ipt nes, contained in the O'd and 
New Tefax ents, to be the rule of fa'th by which eT 
were to be tried Bae bius’s ie, Fs de Vite ev Fe “Cave 
H.b. Lardner s Works. vol. i. 
b us, furnamed Ex} iguus, or the Little, on account 
Daa fhort tare, was a native of Coa flourithed under 
matter o 
er Seca Pudied the feriptures, and that he was 
aie ditinguithed by a combination of great wifdom 
— virtues. 
ous 3 an 
Hi 
ted the Cyc : of Ealter ene 
Cave 
Ca foe) and ave inven 
a\fo fee), eferibe 1 - others to Vidus or Vidtorinus. 
HH. L. vol.i. p. 513. 
1onysius, a Greek poet and mufician, author of the 
words and mufic of three hymns, of which the firft is addref- 
fed to Calliope, the fecond to Apollo, and the third to Ne- 
Ot thefe the mufic has been oe a publithed 
This pr 
chbifhop ee = bought, after his ieisenney by 
r nard, fenow of oe s college, who communt- 
ufica 
in common ufe. lt appears by the notes, that the mufic of 
thefe hymns was compofed in the Lydian moce, and diatonic 
genus. 
Vincenzo Galilei, father of | ae great Galileo, firft pub- 
lifhed chefe hymns. with their ck notes, in his ** Dialogues 
upon Ancient and Modern Mfc,” printed at Florence, ae 
e afiures U8, pon had them froma Floren 
_ accurately from an ancient 
n the hbrary of cardinal St. 
likewife contained the trea- 
a 
i 
Angelo, ar Rome, wi 
tfes of mufic by Ariftides Quintilianus, and Bryennius, { 
fince pubtifbed by Meibomius and Dr. Wai ond The Flo- 
rentine edition of thefe hymus entirely agrees with that 
ee ed at anaes - 1602, Hercules Botoigar mention ed 
imonic called «* Melone 
a inted at Ferrara, in gto. ns ae his knowledge oF 
thele pieces aly ‘from the Disiogues of Galilei; however, 
he inferted, in the beginning of his book, 'fome fapmenis of 
hem in common notes ; but they were disfigured by a num- 
er Of da aati errors, 
At length, in the year 1720, M. Burette publithed thefe 
three hymns i ia the “ Memoirs of tk the Academy 
tions,’? tome v. from aco 
oc 
which likewife contaned the 
Quintiianus, and of Bacchius fenior, th 
were confulsd, and con founded one with 
more at the beginning ; and that to Nemefis, which, though 
ccficient at the end in the other editions, was here entire 
having fourteen verics, exclufive of the fix Arf. , 
We have been nae more toheitons to trace the manner in 
which thefe curious fragme:ts were cifcovered, in order to 
afford our readers ail nue fatisfaCtion ah regard to their 
authenticity ; indeed they have been fifted, collated, ne COre 
re ae by the rnolt able eritics in the Greek Jan ngu nee as well 
as the mcit fkiltul muficians of the two latt centuries. M. 
Daa has pubhit ned the mufic to thefe hymns, in the Me- 
moirs of the Acad+my des Toleriptions, tome v. Dr. Bur. 
nev, in the ii tt volume of his “* General ioe. ot Mufic,”? 
has had this mufic engraved both in ancient and modern bota- 
tion. 
Dionysius Halicarnaffinf's, jonior, flourithed, according 
to Suidas, under the emperor Adrian, and wrote twenty-fix 
books of the ** Hifor ¥ 6 of Maficians,” i in which he celebrated 
rot only the great performers on the fluce and cithara, but 
thofe who had rifen to eminence by every {pecies of poetry. 
He was, likewife, author of five books, wat in defence of 
mufic, and chiefly in refutation of what je alleged again it 
in Plato’s Republic. Ariltides Quintana has alfo endea- 
eae to foften the feverity of 
cin the writings of Cans: but rneten a 
be “defen nee of this a uthor, yet it does not indemni ify u 
the Jofs of that which Di jony ius aa left behind ies. 3 as 
teftimonies are flill remaining of his having been a much 
more able writer than Arif. Quin ianus, 
The lofs of the entire works of this writer ? feverely felt 
by all ceed hittorians, but Sarteulaly by thofe who feek 
in = concerning the mufic and muficians of the an- 
— s. 
us, Lar of, in Geography, a large cavern in the 
ifland a ‘Sicily, - horizontally be a rock, 72 feet high, 
27 bread, and 219 in depth; the entrance of which refembies 
the fhape of an os and the infide ieaeeit the form of the 
letter S. On the top of the cave there isa groove, which runs 
from one end S = other, and has communication witha {mall 
oom at the entrance, now ina aes by reafon 
sas and ae pide of the roc This is imagined to have 
his Travels, gives to the cave the exact form of the human 
ear, but s to it larger dimenfions than thofe a 
{tated from peasy pai ‘** Voyage round the Me needa 
ome, i) - r Baie deny the exiftence fa 
ord Sandwich fuppofes this cavern 
ca acufan ae mentioned by Ci 
but vot other a agree, t 
which ay been 
belon 
6 Latomie 
o 
io) 
DIONYSO. 
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