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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)
  • 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)
  • ἀλλὰ ἡ Κυρήνη γὰρ τῆσ Λιβύησ ἐν τοῖσι ἐρημοτέροισι πεπολισμένη ποιώδησ τέ ἐστι καὶ εὐύδροσ καὶ καρπῶν παντοίων καὶ κτηνέων πάμφοροσ ἔστε ἐπὶ τοῦ σιλφίου τὰσ ἐκφύσιασ· (Arrian, Indica, chapter 43 13:1)
  • εὐοσμότατα δὲ τὰ ἐν Κυρήνῃ, διὸ καὶ τὸ μύρον ἥδιστον, καὶ τῶν ἰών δὲ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἀνθέων ἄκρατοι μάλιστα καὶ θεῖαι αἱ ὀσμαί· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 29 2:1)
  • ἐγίνετο δὲ καὶ ἐν Κυρήνῃ ῥόδινον χρηστότατον καθ’ ὃν χρόνον ἔζη Βερενίκη ἡ μεγάλη · (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 36 4:31)
  • Ιοὐδαῖοσ γάρ τισ Ιὠνάθησ τοὔνομα στάσιν ἐξεγείρασ ἐν Κυρήνῃ καὶ δισχιλίουσ τῶν ἐγχωρίων συναναπείσασ, ἐκείνοισ μὲν αἴτιοσ ἀπωλείασ ἐγένετο, αὐτὸσ δὲ ὑπὸ τοῦ τῆσ χώρασ ἡγεμονεύοντοσ δεθεὶσ καὶ ἐπὶ τὸν αὐτοκράτορα πεμφθεὶσ ἔφασκεν ἐμὲ αὐτῷ ὅπλα πεπομφέναι καὶ χρήματα. (Flavius Josephus, 500:1)
  • ὅτι δὲ τρυφῆσ οὐκ ἦν ἀλλότριοσ ὁ βασιλεὺσ οὗτοσ, αὐτὸσ περὶ ἑαυτοῦ μαρτυρεῖ ἐν τῷ ὀγδόῳ τῶν Ὑπομνημάτων διηγούμενοσ ὅπωσ τε ἱερεὺσ ἐγένετο τοῦ ἐν Κυρήνῃ Ἀπόλλωνοσ καὶ ὅπωσ δεῖπνον παρεσκεύασε τοῖσ πρὸ αὐτοῦ γενομένοισ ἱερεῦσι, γράφων οὕτωσ · (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 73 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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