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Κυρήνη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Κυρήνη

Structure: Κυρην (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. Cyrene

Declension

First 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

  • καὶ εἰσ πάσασ τὰσ χώρασ καὶ Σαμψάμῃ καὶ Σπαρτιάταισ καὶ εἰσ Δῆλον καὶ Μύνδον καὶ Σικυῶνα καὶ εἰσ τὴν Καρίαν καὶ εἰσ Σάμον καὶ εἰσ τὴν Παμφυλίαν καὶ εἰσ τὴν Λυκίαν καὶ εἰσ Ἁλικαρνασσὸν καὶ εἰσ Ρόδον καὶ εἰσ Φασηλίδα καὶ εἰσ Κῶ καὶ εἰσ Σίδην καὶ εἰσ Ἄραδον καὶ εἰσ Γόρτυναν καὶ Κνίδον καὶ Κύπρον καὶ Κυρήνην. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 15:23)
  • ἐγὼ γὰρ οὐχ ὁρῶ ἄνδρ’ οὐδέν’ ἐνθάδ’ ὄντα, Κυρήνην δ’ ὁρῶ. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Prologue, iambics39)
  • "καὶ πάλιν καὶ ἡ τῶν ἐγγεοτόκων τούτων γένεσισ ἅμα καὶ φύσισ, οἱο͂ν τοῦ τε ὕδνου καὶ τοῦ φυομένου περὶ Κυρήνην ὃ καλοῦσι μίσυ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 52112)
  • τοῦ δὲ Κλεομένουσ φήσαντοσ οὐδὲν αὐτῷ περιεῖναι τῶν δεδομένων, λυπηθεὶσ ὁ Νικαγόρασ ἐκφέρει τῷ Σωσιβίῳ τὸ σκῶμμα τοῦ Κλεομένουσ, ὁ δὲ καὶ τοῦτο μὲν ἀσμένωσ ἔλαβεν, ἐκ δὲ μείζονοσ αἰτίασ τὸν βασιλέα παροξῦναι ζητῶν ἔπεισε τὸν Νικαγόραν ἐπιστολὴν γράψαντα κατὰ τοῦ Κλεομένουσ ἀπολιπεῖν, ὡσ ἐγνωκότοσ, εἰ λάβοι τριήρεισ καὶ στρατιώτασ παρ’ αὐτοῦ, Κυρήνην κατασχεῖν. (Plutarch, Cleomenes, chapter 35 3:1)
  • πάντεσ μὲν οὖν βαρέωσ ἤνεγκαν, οὐδεὶσ δὲ μετὰ Πομπήϊον ἠξίου Κάτωνοσ παρόντοσ οὐδὲ ἀκούειν ἄλλον ἡγεμόνα, διὸ καὶ Κάτων αἰδούμενοσ καὶ οἰκτείρων ἄνδρασ ἀγαθοὺσ καὶ πίστεωσ δεδωκότασ πεῖραν ἐπὶ ξένησ ἐρήμουσ καὶ ἀπόρουσ ἀπολιπεῖν, ὑπέστη τε τὴν ἀρχὴν καὶ παρῆλθεν εἰσ Κυρήνην· (Plutarch, Cato the Younger, chapter 56 1:2)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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