syracusan

Adjective

(not comparable)

Of or belonging to Syracuse, a city in Sicily, Italy, or of the city of Syracuse in central New York State.
Ex. The Syracusan expedition was the deathblow of the Athenian Empire. (John Buchan).

Noun

(plural Syracusans)

A native or inhabitant of Syracuse, Sicily, or of Syracuse, New York.
Ex. Dionysius...obliged the Syracusans to accept his tokens in place of silver coins. (William Stanley Jevons)

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In 453 B.C. Elba was devastated by a Syracusan squadron.
It is with this Syracusan plant that some attempts have been made in modern times to manufacture a writing material similar to ancient papyrus.
I ol the 5th century B.C. our notices of Syracusan history are quite fragmentary.
Presently other settlers, perhaps not always Greek, gathered round the original Syracusan people; they formed a distinct body, Siiµos or plebs, personally free, but with an inferior political franchise or none at all.
Whether the inland Sicel town of Henna was ever a Syracusan settlement is doubtful.

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