(), a native of Utica, lived about
B. C. 40. He translated the great work of the Carthaginian Mago on
agriculture from the Punic into Greek, but in such a manner that he condensed the twenty-eight
books of the original into twenty, although he made numerous additions to it from the best
Greek writers on agriculture. He dedicated this work to the praetor Sextilius. Diophanes of
Bithynia, again, made a useful abridgement of the work in six books, which he dedicated to
king Deiotarus. The work of Dionysius Cassius is mentioned among those used by Cassianus
Bassus in compiling the Geoponica at the command of Constantinus Porphyrogeneta. (Varro, De Re Rust. 1.1; Columella, 1.1; Athen. 14.648;
Plin. Nat. 20.44; Geoponica, 1.11.) Cassius also wrote a
work ῥιζοτομικά. (Schol. ad Nicand.
520; Steph. Byz. s. v.Ἰτύκη.) With the exception of the extracts in the
Geoponica, the works of Cassius have perished.