Note 068
From The Invasion of Syria,part of Chapter 51 of the Decline & Fall

The praises of Dionysius are just and lively. ( Syria) (in Periegesi, v. 902, in tom. iv. Geograph. Minor. Hudson). In another place he styles the country (v. 898.). He proceeds to say,

This poetical geographer lived in the age of Augustus, and his description of the world is illustrated by the Greek commentary of Eustathius, who paid the same compliment to Homer and Dionysius (Fabric. Bibliot. Graec. l. iv. c. 2, tom. iii. p. 21, etc.).