Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), D, Diminutio Capĭtis, Diōné

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Diōné

（Διώνη). A female Titan, loved by Zeus, by whom she became the mother of Aphrodité, who is hence called Dionaea and sometimes even Dioné. Hence Caesar is called Dionaeus Caesar, because he claimed descent from Venus (Aphrodité).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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