person
Archimedes
also: Archimedes
The peerless Syracusan geometer and astronomer, whose war-engines—stone-throwers, scorpions, and the ship-lifting iron hand—singlehandedly baffled Marcellus' assault on Syracuse by land and sea.
Reading notes
- The History of Rome, Book 24 §34 one man at Syracuse... He was Archimedes
The peerless Syracusan geometer and astronomer, whose war-engines—stone-throwers, scorpions, and the ship-lifting iron hand—singlehandedly baffled Marcellus' assault on Syracuse by land and sea.
- The History of Rome, Book 25 §31 Archimedes
The great Syracusan geometer and engineer; killed by a soldier amid the sack, intent on figures drawn in the dust—a death Marcellus mourned (§31).