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	'''Dionysius''' ({{lang-grc\|Διονύσιος}}) was a Greek of the 3rd century BCE, who was sent by [[Ptolemy Philadelphus]] of [[Ptolemaic Egypt\|Egypt]] as ambassador to the court of the [[Maurya empire\|Maurya Empire]], in the reign of either [[Bindusara]] or [[Ashoka]].{{sfn\|Mookerji\|1988\|p=38}}		'''Dionysius''' ({{lang-grc\|Διονύσιος}}) was a Greek of the 3rd century BCE, who was sent by [[Ptolemy Philadelphus]] of [[Ptolemaic Egypt\|Egypt]] as ambassador to the court of the [[Maurya empire\|Maurya Empire]], in the reign of either [[Bindusara]] or [[Ashoka]].{{sfn\|Mookerji\|1988\|p=38}}

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'''Dionysius''' ({{lang-grc|Διονύσιος}}) was a Greek of the 3rd century BCE, who was sent by [[Ptolemy Philadelphus]] of [[Ptolemaic Egypt|Egypt]] as ambassador to the court of the [[Maurya empire|Maurya Empire]], in the reign of either [[Bindusara]] or [[Ashoka]].{{sfn|Mookerji|1988|p=38}}

Dionysius is mentioned in a passage of [[Pliny the Elder]]:
<blockquote>But [[India]] has been treated of by several other Greek writers who resided at the courts of Indian kings, such, for instance, as Megasthenes, and by Dionysius, who was sent thither by Philadelphus, expressly for the purpose: all of whom have enlarged upon the power and vast resources of these nations. —Pliny the Elder, ''The Natural History'', book 6, Chap. 21 <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130728023626/http://perseus.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Plin.+Nat.+6.21 Pliny the Elder, "The Natural History", 6, 21]</ref></blockquote>

==Notes==
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==References==
*Edward James Rapson (ed.), ''The Cambridge History of India'', Vol 1, Cambridge 1922, p. 433.
* {{citation |last=Mookerji |first=Radha Kumud |authorlink=Radha Kumud Mukherjee |title=Chandragupta Maurya and his times |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i-y6ZUheQH8C |edition=4th |year=1988 |origyear=first published in 1966 |publisher=[[Motilal Banarsidass]] |isbn=81-208-0433-3 }}

==See also==
*[[Megasthenes]]
*[[Deimachus]]

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