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Κυρηναῖος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Κυρηναῖος Κυρηναίου

Structure: Κυρηναι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. a Cyrenian, a person from Cyrene

Declension

Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • συντετάχθων δὲ αὐτοῖσ Ἰτουραῖοι καὶ Κυρηναῖοι καὶ οἱ ἀπὸ τῆσ πρώτησ Ῥαιτικῆσ. (Arrian, Acies Contra Alanos 3:2)
  • προτετάχθων δὲ τούτων οἱ Ἀπλανοὶ οἱ διακόσιοι, καὶ Κυρηναῖοι οἱ ἑκατόν, ὡσ προβολὴν μὲν εἶναι πρὸ τῶν ἀκοντιστῶν τοὺσ ὁπλίτασ, τοὺσ δὲ ὑπερακοντίζειν ἐκ τοῦ ὑπερδεξιοῦ. (Arrian, Acies Contra Alanos 20:1)
  • καὶ Κυρηναῖοι δ̓ ἐπὶ πολὺ ἀπὸ ἁρμάτων ἐμάχοντο. (Arrian, chapter 19 7:1)
  • Κυρηναῖοι δὲ ὕκην τὸν ἐρυθρῖνον καλοῦσιν, ὡσ Κλείταρχόσ φησιν ἐν Γλώσσαισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 58 1:1)
  • Κυρηναῖοι δὲ τὸν ποδονιπτῆρα δεῖνον ὀνομάζουσιν, ὡσ Φιλίτασ φησιν ἐν Ἀτάκτοισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 32 3:1)

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