RATIONES RERUM 21: Articolo Sergio Brillante

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Rationes Rerum 21

SERGIO BRILLANTE
Sul nome di Cassio Dione: l’ignorata testimonianza di Fozio

The article sheds new light on the praenomen of the historian Cassius Dio. Photios, in the Bibliotheca (ch. 71), calls him Lucius, but the inaccuracy of the modern editions of this work has overshadowed this information. Nevertheless, this praenomen is confirmed by a Roman military diploma discovered in 1985 (AE 1985, 821), in which to the name of the consul Cassius Dio is prefixed the letter L.