Kyrenæan

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1. datedDated form of Cyrenian.

   One of the earliest representations of them on vases is a cup of Kyrenæan fabric, which shows us the Hesperid Kyrene; […]

   1894 [1893], Archæological Institute of America, “Harpies in Greek Art”, in American Journal of Archæology and of the History of the Fine Arts, volume IX, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 439

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   According to the account of a lost historian, Meneklês—political dissension anfong the inhabitants of Thêra led to that emigration which founded Kyrênê; and the more ample legendary details which Herodotus collected, partly from Theræan, partly from Kyrenæan informants, are not positively inconsistent with this statement, though they indicate more particularly bad seasons, distress, and over-population. […] Not possessing that fierce tenacity of habits which the Mahomedan religion has impressed upon the Arabs of the present day, they were open to the mingled influence of constraint and seduction applied by Grecian settlers, and in the time of Herodotus, the Kabales and the Asbystæ of the interior had come to copy Kyrenæan tastes and customs.

   1847, George Grote, “Kyrênê and Barka.—Hesperides.”, in A History of Greece, volume IV (part II, Continuation of Historical Greece), London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, pages 40 and 53

   But coming out they found a Kyreneæan man, his name being Simōn; they compelled him to go (with them) that he should take up his [Jesus’s] cross.

   1911, [George William Horner], transl., The Coptic Version of the New Testament in the Southern Dialect, Otherwise Called Sahidic and Thebaic […], volume I (The Gospels of S. Matthew and S. Mark), Oxford, Oxfordshire: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, Matthew xxvii:32, page 333

plural Kyrenæans

1. datedDated form of Cyrenian.

   When the Kyrenæans, likewise, requested him to send them laws for their city, he declined, saying it was difficult to prescribe laws for men who were in a prosperous condition.

   1881 April, “Life of Platon”, in Thomas M[oore] Johnson, editor, The Platonist. […], volume I, number 3, St. Louis, Mo., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 37, columns 1–2

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   The Kyrenæans under him took pains to invite new settlers from all parts of Greece without distinction—a circumstance deserving notice in Grecian colonization, which usually manifested a preference for certain races, if it did not positively exclude the rest.

   1847, George Grote, “Kyrênê and Barka.—Hesperides.”, in A History of Greece, volume IV (part II, Continuation of Historical Greece), London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 55

   Osiris is at times called “the god” simply, as on the left wall of the great staircase where the following graffiti are written one under the other: Ἔυφρις Φιλοκράτεος Κυρηναῖος ·[…], “Euphris the son of Philokrates, a Kyrenæean.[…]”

   1888 May 1, A[rchibald] H[enry] Sayce, “Some Greek Graffiti from Abydos”, in Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archæology, volume X, part 7, number LXXVI (18th session, 6th meeting), London: […] [T]he Society, […], →OCLC, page 382