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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

  • οὐ γὰρ ἔγωγε Ἐρατοσθένει τῷ Κυρηναίῳ πάντῃ ξυμφέρομαι, ὃσ λέγει πάντα ὅσα ἐσ τὸ θεῖον ἀναφέρεται ἐκ Μακεδόνων πρὸσ χάριν τὴν Ἀλεξάνδρου ἐσ τὸ ὑπέρογκον ἐπιφημισθῆναι. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 5, chapter 3 1:2)
  • τὰ δὲ δὴ πλοῖά σφι, τοῖσι φορτηγέουσι, ἐστὶ ἐκ τῆσ ἀκάνθησ ποιεύμενα, τῆσ ἡ μορφὴ μὲν ἐστὶ ὁμοιοτάτη τῷ Κυρηναίῳ λωτῷ, τὸ δὲ δάκρυον κόμμι ἐστί. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 96 2:1)

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