Metapontum
Americannoun
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Hippasus of Metapontum stood on the deck, preparing to die.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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
Not only in Gela, but in Syracuse, Selinous, Akrai, Kroton, Metapontum and Paestum, precisely similar terracottas were found to have been employed in the same way.
From The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 by Various
From this time he abandoned all thoughts of offensive operations, and, withdrawing his garrisons from Metapontum and other towns that he still held in Lucania, collected together his forces within the peninsula of the Bruttii.
From A Smaller History of Rome by Smith, William, Sir
Transcribers notes On page 30 Megapontum has been left as printed, though the author probably meant Metapontum.
From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene
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