"Noli, obsecro, istum disturbare."
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I pray you, do not disturb it. — 8, 7, ext. 7. — Generally quoted as, Noli turbare circulos meos.—"Do not disturb my circles." Archimedes’ expostulation to the Roman soldier, during the siege of Syracuse, 212 BC, who surprised him engaged upon some geometrical problem figured on the sand, and not being able to get any other reply, put him to death.
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Valerius Maximus
was a 1st-century Latin writer and author of a collection of historical anecdotes: Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri IX ("Nine books of memorable deeds and sayings", also known as De factis dictisque memorabilibus or Facta et dicta memorabilia). He worked during the reign of (14 to 37 AD).
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