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
And they admirably pump out the water with those instruments called Egyptian pumps, invented by Archimedes, the Syracusan, when he was in Egypt.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
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 Piercy, Willis Duff
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