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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

  • τοιαυτὶ μέντοι σὺ ποιῶν τολμᾷσ τἀμὰ μέλη ψέγειν, ἀνὰ τὸ δωδεκαμήχανον Κυρήνησ μελοποιῶν; (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene, lyric1)
  • ἐκ μὲν Κυρήνησ καυλὸν καὶ δέρμα βόειον ἐκ δ’ Ἑλλησπόντου σκόμβρουσ καὶ πάντα ταρίχη· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 49 1:4)
  • Ἀγαθαρχίδησ δ’ ἐν τῇ ἑκκαιδεκάτῃ Εὐρωπιακῶν Μάγαν φησὶ τὸν Κυρήνησ βασιλεύσαντα ἔτη πεντήκοντα ἀπολέμητον γενόμενον καὶ τρυφῶντα κατάσαρκον γενέσθαι ἐκτόπωσ τοῖσ ὄγκοισ κατὰ τὸν ἔσχατον καιρὸν καὶ ὑπὸ τοῦ πάχουσ ἀποπνιγῆναι δι’ ἀργίαν σώματοσ καὶ τῷ προσφέρεσθαι πλῆθοσ τροφῆσ, παρὰ δὲ Λακεδαιμονίοισ ὁ αὐτὸσ ἱστορεῖ διὰ τῆσ ἑβδόμησ καὶ εἰκοστῆσ οὐ τῆσ τυχούσησ ἀδοξίασ νομίζεσθαι, εἴ τισ ἢ τὸ σχῆμα ἀνανδρότερον ἔχων ἢ τὸν ὄγκον τοῦ σώματοσ προπετῆ ἐφαίνετο, γυμνῶν κατὰ δέκα ἡμέρασ παρισταμένων τοῖσ ἐφόροισ τῶν νέων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 741)
  • καὶ γὰρ τὰ κατὰ τὴν Αἴγυπτον αὐτοῖσ ἐνεχείρισε φρούρια πιστῶσ ἅμα καὶ γενναίωσ φυλάξειν ὑπολαμβάνων, καὶ Κυρήνησ ἐγκρατῶσ ἄρχειν βουλόμενοσ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων τῶν ἐν τῇ Λιβύῃ πόλεων εἰσ αὐτὰσ μέροσ Ιοὐδαίων ἔπεμψε κατοικῆσον. (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 48:2)
  • ` τοῦ δὲ ὀποῦ μέμνηται Ἀντιφάνησ ἐν Δυσέρωσι περὶ Κυρήνησ τὸν λόγον ποιούμενοσ ἐκεῖσε δ’ οὐ πλέω ὅθεν διεσπάσθημεν, ἐρρῶσθαι λέγων ἅπασιν, ἵπποισ, σιλφίῳ, συνωρίσιν, καυλῷ, κέλησι, μασπέτοισ, πυρετοῖσ, ὀπῷ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 58 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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