a. and sb. [ad. L. Syrācūsānus, f. Syrācūsæ, Gr. Συράκουσαι Syracuse + -AN.] a. adj. Of or belonging to Syracuse, a city in Sicily. b. sb. A native or inhabitant of Syracuse.
1576. Fleming, Panopl. Epist., 220. Italian iunkets, and Syracusane deinties.
1611. Cotgr., Petalisme, a forme … of banishment among the old Syracusans.
1797. Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3), XVII. 456/2. The city of Himera was … peopled by the Chalcidians and some Syracusan exiles.
1816. J. Smith, Panorama Sci. & Art, II. 674. Grape,… red Syracusan.
1839. Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl., II. 435/2. Syracusan [marble] … was wrought from the latomia, which were quarries before Dionysius converted them into prisons.
1875. Jevons, Money, xvi. 203. Dionysius … obliged the Syracusans to accept his tokens in place of silver coins.
1916. Buchan, Hist. War, lxxix. XI. 36. The Syracusan expedition was the death-blow of the Athenian Empire.
So † Syracusian a. and sb. Obs. [cf. L. Syrācūsius, Gr. Συρακούσιος].
1590. Shaks., Com. Err., I. i. 14. It hath … beene decreed, Both by the Siracusians and our selues, To admit no trafficke to our aduerse townes. Ibid., I. ii. 3. A Syracusian Marchant.
1656. Stanley, Hist. Philos., IV. Bion, iii. (1687), 143/2. A Syracusian wrote of the Art of Rhetorick.
1769. Swinton, in Phil. Trans., LX. 85. Whose Greek inhabitants were probably for the most part either Syracusians, or of Syracusian extraction.
1797. Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3), XVII. 456/2. The Syracusians built Acræ, Chasmenæ, and Camarina.
