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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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 inventive genius of Archimedes enabled the Syracusans to successfully defend their city for three years.
From Stories of the Olden Time (Historical Series—Book IV Part I) by Various
For those are the names under which the Goddess is worshipped by the Syracusans, as Polemo himself reports in his book about Morychus.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
