Hiero was astonished,
and begged him to put his proposition into execution, and show him some great weight moved by a slight force.
Hiero, thinking it an outrage that he had been tricked,
and yet not knowing how to detect the theft, requested Archimedes to consider the matter.
Hiero, after gaining the royal power in Syracuse,
resolved, as a consequence of his successful exploits, to place in a certain temple a golden crown which he had vowed to the immortal gods.
He wrote:"There are some, King Gelo(Gelo II, son of Hiero II), who think that the number of the sand is infinite in multitude;
and I mean by the sand not only that which exists about Syracuse and the rest of Sicily but also that which is found in every region whether inhabited or uninhabited.