Syracusan
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Syracusans
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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
Charles Goodyear In the early months of 1839 Goodyear could shout with the old Syracusan mathematician, "Eureka!"—"I have found it!"
From Great Inventions and Discoveries by Willis Duff Piercy
"Dante at Verona" had combined a complicated design of many figures with a dramatic feeling; "Cimabue's Madonna" and the "Syracusan Bride" had proved Leighton's "great power of rich arrangement," to quote D.G.
From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II by Mrs. Russell Barrington
As soon as they realized that Romans were inside the walls of the city, the Syracusans, wild with fear, could not mount a defense.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
The Romans were too powerful for the Syracusans.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
This man, as I said, having been named by the Syracusans commander of their armies, immediately realized that mercenary forces were useless, since their condottieri were men like our Italian condottieri.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
The Syracusans shortly after came upon Mylias of Croton and his wife, Timycha, who, on account of her delicate condition, had been left behind by the rest of their party.
From Greek Women by Mitchell Carroll
Ptolemus says that Ceres was called Sito among the Syracusans, from the same Greek word Sito.
From Fishes, Flowers, and Fire as Elements and Deities in the Phallic Faiths and Worship of the Ancient Religions of Greece, Babylon, by Anonymous
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