Deed — 2 authors face each other below

siege of Syracuse

kind: siege · 213-212 BCE — the editor’s frame · 4 mentions across 4 episodes of the record — counted by the house’s first pass receipt — the deed shelf, first pass receipt — the witness index

Marcellus against Archimedes' engines, ending in the city's fall and the geometer's death. The Athenian siege of 415-413 is a different event (see the Sicilian expedition).

Where the accounts part — the record’s own argument; the witnesses below carry the receipts

Polybius makes Archimedes a lesson — 'the genius of one man is more effective than any numbers whatever'; Plutarch grows the legend to the soldiers' terror at a rope over the wall, then gives the death scene in variants: the unfinished diagram, the refused summons, the soldier's sword. The engineer's war and the engineer's death, each multiply told.

The regnal line — the editor’s table of years, never the record’s voice

Anchored at 213–212 BCE on the editor’s table of years .

· 213–212 BCE — date conventional ·

213-212 BCE; Marcellus' siege in the Second Punic War, dated by the consular sequence both authors carry.

The accounts, side by side — each witness in its own words; every quote is the served record’s, linked to its episode

Plutarch · one account

14–19 the principal narrative The siege and sack through Marcellus, with the death of Archimedes at the diagram.

But Archimedes began to ply his engines, and shot against the land forces of the assailants all sorts of missiles Plut. Marcellus 15

But what most of all afflicted Marcellus was the death of Archimedes. Plut. Marcellus 19

Marcellus 19 catalogues rival versions of the death — the index serves the variance, not a harmonized tale. Marcellus · Bernadotte Perrin, 1914–1926

Polybius · one account

8.5–8.9 the principal narrative The assault machinery against Archimedes' counter-machinery, told by the military analyst.

in certain circumstances, the genius of one man is more effective than any numbers whatever. Plb. 8.5

But Archimedes had constructed catapults to suit every range Plb. 8.7

The Histories · Evelyn S. Shuckburgh, 1889

Who stands in this deed — standing in the same episodes; counted by the house’s first pass

Marcellus — 2 episodes shared Claudius — a candidate entry Hieronymus — a candidate entry Hippocrates — a candidate entry

Doors to the sister houses

logoi — the words

No door is cut to the word-house from this room yet. logoi.health keeps the words meanwhile.

mythoi — the stories

No door is cut to the story-house from this room yet. mythoi.health keeps the stories meanwhile.

The record here: The Histories, Herodotus — Godley, 1920–25 · Parallel Lives, Plutarch — Perrin, 1914–26 · 166 works · 12,119 episodes served

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