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 1 15|     would seem, but trifles for Archimedes and his machines. ~
 2 16|        place as a military art. Archimedes, however, in writing to
 3 16|         the art, prevailed upon Archimedes to make him engines accommodated
 4 17|      and those forces. But when Archimedes began to ply his engines,
 5 17|         night; thinking that as Archimedes used ropes stretched at
 6 17|       retaliate in any way. For Archimedes had provided and fixed most
 7 18| Syracusans were but the body of Archimedes's designs, one soul moving
 8 18|        that there it was again, Archimedes was about to let fly some
 9 18|       hope in a long siege. Yet Archimedes possessed so high a spirit,
10 19|                        Such was Archimedes, who now showed himself,
11 19|         so much as the death of Archimedes, who was then, as fate would
12 19|   offered to kill him; and that Archimedes, looking back, earnestly
13 19|    Others again relate that, as Archimedes was carrying to Marcellus