Syracusan
noun
a person from Syracuse.
Syracusans
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pluralof Syracusan.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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
At a later period the Katanians sided with the Athenians against the Syracusans.
From Etna A History of the Mountain and of its Eruptions by G. F. Rodwell
He wrote the epitaph in the old severe untranslatable style of Simonides: "These men won eight victories over the Syracusans when the hand of God lay even between both."
From Euripedes and His Age by Gilbert Murray
