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6 entries for
Archimedes
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4113
Ἀρχιμήδης
Archimedes
RE
Archimedes(4).
[The Suda has no dedicated entry for the most celebrated bearer of this name, but see e.g. alpha 2797, sigma 669.]
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δ
1573
Δύναμις
capability, capacity, ability, potentiality, power
… [says]: "having joined into a unity the five faculties of
Archimedes
so as to be able to move with difficulty the heavy protuberances that weigh down the neck." Philo said that two potentialities meet …
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ε
2907
Ἐργολάβος
contractor; profit-maker
… hard time, since they had not taken into due consideration
Archimedes'
ability".
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α
2797
Ἀνυστικωτέρα
more effective
… some instances than a whole multitude of hands". [Meaning] that
Archimedes
in Syracuse by himself [was more effective than] many Romans.
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ε
945
Ἐμβελές
within missile-range
Archimedes
"prepared machines for every distance within missile-range, [so damaging] from afar those who were sailing in with the more powerful and large [stone-throwers and catapults]; and when these shot too high, with the …
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δ
1405
Δοσίθεος
Dositheos, Dositheus
… Hellenistic astronomer D. of Pelusium, dedicatee of several books by
Archimedes
- OCD(4) s.v. no.2 (and Bibliography below), D. 'Magister', author of a Latin grammatical handbook in the (?)late fourth century CE - an …
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