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
Astylus as a Syracusan for the second time.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller
The Syracusan ἐμπερόναμα had perhaps originated from the clasped χίτων of the Dorians, Theocrit.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller
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
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 Romans were too powerful for the Syracusans.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
The city maintained its independence till the time of Hieron, who expelled the original inhabitants in 476 b.c., and peopled the city with Syracusans and inhabitants of the Peloponnesus to the number of 10,000.
From Etna A History of the Mountain and of its Eruptions by G. F. Rodwell
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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