Syracusan
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A Slovakian gets a long rave from the ultimate Syracusan.
From Washington Post • Mar. 27, 2021
The historian Plutarch tells a moving story about the thousands of Athenian soldiers held prisoner in roasting Syracusan quarries after a disastrous campaign in 413 BC.
From BBC • Oct. 22, 2013
Archimedes’ talents were useful to the Syracusan military as well.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
But Nymphodorus the Syracusan, in his Voyage round Asia, says that it was a Lesbian woman, named Salpe, who wrote the book called The Sports.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
Thus Mark, the Syracusan, was a pretty fair poet during a maniacal attack, but could not compose when sane.
From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Talbot, Eugene S.
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