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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

  • τὰ ὑπὸ Ἰάσωνοσ τοῦ Κυρηναίου δεδηλωμένα δὲ πέντε βιβλίων πειρασόμεθα δἰ ἑνὸσ συντάγματοσ ἐπιτεμεῖν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 2:23)
  • ἔτι ὁ αὐτὸσ Κλέαρχοσ καὶ ταῦτά φησι, σαφέστερον τοῦ Κυρηναίου φιλοστεφάνου, οὗ πρότερον ἐμνήσθην· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 61)
  • "τοῦτο γὰρ ἐν παισὶ τὰ Καλλιμάχου ἀναγινώσκων ἐπιγράμματα, ὧν ἐστι καὶ τοῦτο, ἐπεζήτουν μαθεῖν, εἰπόντοσ τοῦ Κυρηναίου· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 8 2:8)
  • εἰσ τὸν ναυτίλον τοῦτον φέρεταί τι Καλλιμάχου τοῦ Κυρηναίου ἐπίγραμμα οὕτωσ ἔχον κόγχοσ ἐγώ, Ζεφυρῖτι, πάλαι τέρασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 1061)
  • εἰ τὸν Ἀρίμμα τοῦ Κυρηναίου παῖδα λέγεισ, ὑπ’ ἐμοί. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 5242)

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