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- adjective Of or belonging to Syracuse, a city in
Sicily ,Italy , or of the city of Syracuse in centralNew York State . - noun A native or inhabitant of Syracuse, Sicily, or of Syracuse, New York.
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Examples
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Thucydides calls the Syracusan victory the greatest of the war, and the Athenian defeat the most calamitous and total.
THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003
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Hermocrates calls Syracusan soldiers insubordinate, 6.72.4
THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003
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Thucydides calls the Syracusan victory the greatest of the war, and the Athenian defeat the most calamitous and total.
THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003
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Hermocrates calls Syracusan soldiers insubordinate, 6.72.4
THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003
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She gives this forth, in the old "Syracusan" manner, and is well aware that he can have no answer for her.
Browning's Heroines Ethel Colburn Mayne
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"In the time of our fathers," says this ancient enthusiast, "we had many famous players, of whom _Paolo Boi_, Sicilian, of the city of Syracuse, and commonly called the Syracusan, was considered the best.
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As Egeon, a Syracusan merchant imprisoned in Ephesus, explains how he came to be severed from his family, everything is acted out in front of us.
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What Cooke offers thereafter is an extended urban nightmare: one in which Lenny Henry's Syracusan Antipholus and Lucian Msamati as his browbeaten servant find themselves bewilderingly mistaken for their Ephesian twins.
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Two spells advising Syracusan tyrants ended in disaster: Plato's counsel was ignored, and he almost lost his head.
Power and The Professors Brian C. Anderson 2011
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And then they ran into the last of the Syracusan heavy foot and died horribly.
Sending Little Wooden Block People Off to Die | Spontaneous ∂erivation 2010
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