Syracuse

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Syr·a·cuse

(sîr′ə-kyo͞os′, -kyo͞oz′, sŭr′-)

1. A city of southeast Sicily, Italy, on the Ionian Sea south-southeast of Catania. Founded by colonists from Corinth in the eighth century bc, it reached the height of its power in the fifth century but fell to the Romans in 212.

2. A city of central New York east-southeast of Rochester. Established as an Onondagan trading post near a large salt deposit, it became a major saltworks in the 1800s and is now the site of Syracuse University.

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Syracuse

1. (Placename) a port in SW Italy, in SE Sicily on the Ionian Sea: founded in 734 bc by Greeks from Corinth and taken by the Romans in 212 bc, after a siege of three years. Pop: 123 657 (2001). Italian name: Siracusa

2. (Placename) a city in central New York State, on Lake Onondaga: site of the capital of the Iroquois Indian federation. Pop: 144 001 (2003 est)

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Syr•a•cuse

(ˈsɪr əˌkyus, -ˌkyuz)

n.

1. a city in central New York. 155,865.

2. Italian, Siracusa. a seaport in SE Sicily: ancient city founded by the Carthaginians 734 B.C.; battles 413 B.C., 212 B.C. 121,134.

Syr`a•cu′san, adj., n.

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Noun	1.	Syracuse - a city in central New York Empire State, New York State, NY, New York - a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies
	2.	Syracuse - a city in southeastern Sicily that was founded by Corinthians in the 8th century BC Siracusa Sicilia, Sicily - the Italian region on the island of Sicily
	3.	Syracuse - the Roman siege of Syracuse (214-212 BC) was eventually won by the Romans who sacked the city (killing Archimedes) siege of Syracuse Sicilia, Sicily - the largest island in the Mediterranean
	4.	Syracuse - the Athenian siege of Syracuse (415-413 BC) was eventually won by Syracuse siege of Syracuse Sicilia, Sicily - the largest island in the Mediterranean

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Syracuse

Siracusa

Syracuse

[ˈsaɪərəkjuːz] N → Siracusa f

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Syracuse

n (= town in Sicily) → Syrakus nt

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There is also one sort of knowledge proper for a master, another for a slave; the slave's is of the nature of that which was taught by a slave at Syracuse; for he for a stipulated sum instructed the boys in all the business of a household slave, of which there are various sorts to be learnt, as the art of cookery, and other such-like services, of which some are allotted to some, and others to others; some employments being more honourable, others more necessary; according to the proverb, "One slave excels another, one master excels another:" in such-like things the knowledge of a slave consists.

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{134} The names Syra and Ortygia, on which island a great part of the Doric Syracuse was originally built, suggest that even in Odyssean times there was a prehistoric Syracuse, the existence of which was known to the writer of the poem.

{135} Literally "where are the turnings of the sun." Assuming, as we may safely do, that the Syra and Ortygia of the "Odyssey" refer to Syracuse, it is the fact that not far to the South of these places the land turns sharply round, so that mariners following the coast would find the sun upon the other side of their ship to that on which they'd had it hitherto.

I take it that Eumaeus was made to have come from Syracuse because the writer thought she rather ought to have made something happen at Syracuse during her account of the voyages of Ulysses.

{135} Modern excavations establish the existence of two and only two pre-Dorian communities at Syracuse; they were, so Dr.

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To these great examples I wish to add a lesser one; still it bears some resemblance to them, and I wish it to suffice me for all of a like kind: it is Hiero the Syracusan.[*] This man rose from a private station to be Prince of Syracuse, nor did he, either, owe anything to fortune but opportunity; for the Syracusans, being oppressed, chose him for their captain, afterwards he was rewarded by being made their prince.

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no, no!" cried the superintendent once again; "you are all deceived, and deceive me in my turn; Lyodot came to see me only the day before yesterday; only three days ago I received a present of some Syracuse wine from poor D'Eymeris."

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Emil Gluck was born in Syracuse, New York, in 1895.

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Syracuse had set the national record for most losses in a row.

The buoy from Syracuse: Jim Boeheim's secret is good players and good assistants

I READ WITH GREAT INTEREST HOLLY Aguirre's article on Syracuse University's Independent Study M.B.A.

Real-world prep. (Letters)

Single-stream recycling collection and processing has marched steadily forward, and no one is more aware than Mark Naef of Naef Recycling, East Syracuse, N.Y.

Dual purposes. (MRF Series)

PIMA's New York/Canadian Division presented a $15,000 endowment to the Syracuse Pulp and Paper Foundation (SPPT) based at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF).