Eupalinus
of Megara, was the architect of the great aqueduct, or rather tunnel, in Samos, which was carried a length of seven stadia through a mountain. The work was probably executed under the tyranny of Polycrates. (Müller, Arch. d. Kunst, § 81, note.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.