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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

  • πεζοὶ δὲ ἐπὶ τούτοισ τετάχθων, τὰ σημεῖα ἀνατεταμένα πρὸ σφῶν ἔχοντεσ, οἵ τε Ἰταλοὶ καὶ Κυρηναίων οἱ παρόντεσ. (Arrian, Acies Contra Alanos 5:1)
  • ἐνάτη δὲ ἐπὶ τούτοισ ἔστω τάξισ οἱ πεζοὶ τοξόται, οἱ τῶν Νομάδων καὶ Κυρηναίων καὶ Βοσπορανῶν τε καὶ Ἰτουραίων. (Arrian, Acies Contra Alanos 25:1)
  • ἐν δὲ τῷ ναῷ τῆσ Ἥρασ τῷ παλαιῷ φιάλαι ἀργυραῖ λ’, κρατάνια ἀργυρᾶ β’, χύτροσ ἀργυροῦσ, ἀποθυστάνιον χρυσοῦν, κρατὴρ χρυσοῦσ, Κυρηναίων ἀνάθημα, βατιάκιον ἀργυροῦν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 59 1:6)
  • ὁ δὲ Λάαρχοσ ἐπιβουλεύων τῇ τυραννίδι καὶ τοὺσ ἀρίστουσ τῶν Κυρηναίων ἐξελαύνων ἢ φονεύων, ἐπὶ τὸν Ἀρκεσίλαον τὰσ αἰτίασ ἔτρεπε· (Plutarch, Mulierum virtutes, 1:3)
  • ἐπιβουλεύων τῇ τυραννίδι καὶ τοὺσ ἀρίστουσ τῶν Κυρηναίων ἐξελαύνων ἢ φονεύων, ἐπὶ τὸν Ἀρκεσίλαον τὰσ αἰτίασ ἔτρεπε· (Plutarch, Mulierum virtutes, 2:3)

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