Eureka - What does it mean?
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An exclamation indicating sudden discovery.
* 1821': '''Eureka! I have found it! What I mean / To say is, not that love is idleness, / But that in love such idleness has been / An accessory, as I have cause to guess. — Byron, ''Don Juan, 1821
* 1970': A page is turned - '''eureka , a snatch of tune / is playing itself, the piss-proud syllables / are unveiling a difficult prosody — Peter Porter, The Sanitized Sonnets, in ''The Last of England, 1970