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Cassius Dio - Dio Cassius

Cassius Dio (an historian who wrote in Greek) is sometimes called Dio Cassius. In an inscription from Macedonia he is called (transliterated from Greek into Roman letters) Cl (for Claudius) Cassius Dion. Sometimes he is called Cassius Dio Cocceianus. The cognomen Cocceianus is used by Pliny the Younger for the rhetor, Dio Cocceianus, who is known by others as Dio Chrysostom. The Gothic historian Jordanes confuses the historian and rhetor/orator because the orator, stepping into a somewhat different hat, wrote a history of the Goths. Confusion continues in the areas of the identity between the two men and the relationship between them -- some claiming that the historian was the grandson of the orator.

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