Cicero Comments

1. On Searching Syracuse for Archimedes’ Tomb

Through streets as narrow as a Gallic mind,
I wandered through the city and inquired
of every ancient Greek where I could find
the mausoleum where they had interred
that architect and fulcrum of their fame:
old Archimedes who, . . .
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