Syracusan
Americannoun
plural
Syracusansadjective
Example Sentences
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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
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.
But Clearchus the Peripatetic says that the Rhodians and Sicilians call plums βράβυλα, and so Theocritus the Syracusan uses the word— Heavy with plums, the branches swept the ground.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
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