Metapontum
Americannoun
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This someone was Hippasus of Metapontum, a mathematician and member of the Pythagorean brotherhood.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Hippasus of Metapontum stood on the deck, preparing to die.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
By parity of reasoning no doubt, if Pythagoras is seen at the same moment in Thurii and Metapontum, only a film of him is beheld at one of these two places.
From Cock Lane and Common-Sense by Lang, Andrew
The people of Metapontum stamped their money with a mouse gnawing an ear of corn.
From Custom and Myth New Edition by Lang, Andrew
He was worshipped as a hero not only in Greece, but on the coast of the Adriatic, as at Thurii and Metapontum.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various
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