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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

  • τοὺσ δὲ Ῥοδίουσ ἐκάλει λευκοὺσ Κυρηναίουσ καὶ μνηστήρων πόλιν, τὴν δ’ Ἡράκλειαν Ἀνδροκόρινθον καὶ τὸ Βυζάντιον μασχάλην τῆσ Ἑλλάδοσ, τοὺσ δὲ Λευκαδίουσ ἑώλουσ Κορινθίουσ, τοὺσ δ’ Ἀμβρακιώτασ Μεμβρακιώτασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 444)
  • τοὺσ δὲ Ῥοδίουσ ὁ αὐτὸσ Στρατόνικοσ σπαταλῶνασ καὶ θερμοπότασ θεωρῶν ἔφη αὐτοὺσ λευκοὺσ εἶναι Κυρηναίουσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 45 3:4)
  • Ἕρμιπποσ ’ ἐν α περὶ νομοθετῶν τῶν μονομαχούντων εὑρετὰσ ἀποφαίνει Μαντινεῖσ Δημώνακτοσ ἑνὸσ τῶν πολιτῶν συμβουλεύσαντοσ, καὶ ζηλωτὰσ τούτων γενέσθαι Κυρηναίουσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 41 1:1)
  • ὁ δὲ Ἀπρίασ ἐκπεπτώκει τῆσ Αἰγυπτίων βασιλείασ διὰ τὴν γενομένην ἧτταν πρὸσ Κυρηναίουσ καὶ ἀνῄρητο ὑπὸ Ἀμάσιδοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 10 3:2)
  • Ζηνόδοτοσ δέ φησι Κυρηναίουσ τὸν ὕκην ἐρυθρῖνον καλεῖν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 132 1:4)

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