Kyrenaean

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1. alternativeAlternative form of Cyrenian.

   R. rejects A.’s view that the ambassadors of the Kyrenaean Ptolemaiei (L. 3) were Jews; […]

   1993, “Lanuvium. Bilingual dedication of two ambassadors of Ptolemais to their patron, late 1st cent. b.c.”, in H[enk] W. Pleket, R[onald] S. Stroud, editors, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, volume XL (1990), Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 259

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   Structurally, oracles II and III of the Kyrenaean version correspond to oracle II of the Theraian, that is, an inquiry following a failure to accomplish the colonization.

   1987, Irad Malkin, “The Foundation of Kyrene in Libya”, in Religion and Colonization in Ancient Greece (Studies in Greek and Roman Religion; 3), Leiden: E.J. Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, part I (Religion and the Foundation of Greek Colonies), chapter I (The Founders of Colonies and Apollo’s Oracle), page 64

   Between ca. 510 and 480, for example, Kyrene minted silver issues which on the obverse depicted the silphium fruit or the entire silphium plant, a medicinal and culinary herb famous in antiquity for its origin at Kyrenaean silphium plantations.

   2007, Stephanie L. Larson, “Boiotian Manufacture of Raw Materials and Weaponry”, in Tales of Epic Ancestry […] (Historia Einzelschriften; 197), Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, →ISBN, chapter 3 (Boiotian Coinage and the Shared Symbol of the “Boiotian” Shield), “The Symbol of the Cutout Shield” section, page 105

   The Kyrenaean inscription, having used the word of malevolent spirits, goes on immediately to apply it to human suppliants (110–22).

   2013, Robert L. Fowler, “Zeus Hikesios and Alastoros (Pher. fr. 175)”, in Early Greek Mythography, volume II (Commentary), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, part A (Mythological Commentary), section 1 (Theogony), subsection 8 (Epitheta Deorum), page 71

plural Kyrenaeans

1. alternativeAlternative form of Cyrenian.

   A week later the Kyrenaean shifted into the town.

   1939 September [1933], Jan Parandowski, translated by A. M. Malecka and S. A. Walewski, “The Cosmos”, in The Olympic Discus, London: Minerva Publishing Co. Ltd. […], →OCLC, page 60

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   The scholion on Aristophanes Plut. 925 serves as a corroboration: “The Kyrenaeans honour him as the Archēgetēs.”

   1987, Irad Malkin, “Battos and Kyrene”, in Religion and Colonization in Ancient Greece (Studies in Greek and Roman Religion; 3), Leiden: E.J. Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, part II (The Cult of the Founder), chapter VI (Founders and their Cults), page 205

   Insomuch that Aristippus the Kyrenaean, in his book on Physiology, says he was named “Pythagoras” from speaking things as true as Pythian Apollo.

   2010, Thomas Stanley, “Wonders Related of Him”, in James Wasserman, editor, Pythagoras: His Life and Teachings: A Compendium of Classical Sources, Lake Worth, Fla.: Ibis Press, →ISBN, part 1 (The Life of Pythagoras), page 87