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Kyrene
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English
Etymology
en grc Κυρήνη.
Proper noun
en Cyrene.
en 1890 Cecil Harcourt-Smith A Protokorinthian Lekythos in the British Museum w:The Journal of Hellenic Studies XI London Published by the Council of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, and sold on their behalf by Macmillan and Co.,29 Bedford Street, Strand 178 https://archive.org/details/sim_journal-of-hellenic-studies_1890_11_contents/page/178/mode/1up 0075-4269 436724650 To resume then, it would seem that both the pinakes, the fabrics of Naukratis and Daphnae, and the fabrie of Kyrene share in common with the Protokorinthian ware certain relations to the metal bowls of Phoenician origin.
en 2003 John H. Kunkel Aster The Winged Soul: Plato’s Autobiography Philadelphia, Pa. w:Xlibris 87 https://archive.org/details/wingedsoulplatos0000kunk/page/87/mode/1up 1-4010-8474-5 Sokrates remembered with pleasure an earlier visit by Theodoros, the mathematician who now lived in Kyrene, but thought more of the man than his subject.
en 2006 w:Duncan Sprott Mud Bricks Daughter of the Crocodile Ptolemies Quartet 2 London Faber and Faber part 1 (Sister-Lover Ptolemy Philadelphos) 103 https://archive.org/details/daughterofcrocod0000spro/page/103/mode/1up 978-0-571-20290-4 Aye, upon the horizon was Magas, Berenike Alpha’s son, the young man whom Ptolemy Soter had sent as Strategos, or Governor, to Kyrene thirty years before.
German
Alternative forms
de Cyrene dated Zyrene rare
Etymology
Ultimately from de grc Κυρήνη.
Pronunciation
de /kyˈʁeːnə/
Proper noun
toponym
de <<historic city>> in modern <<c/Libya>> Cyrene
de Simon von Kyrene Simon of Cyrene Simon of Cyrene
Derived terms
de Kyrenäer kyrenäisch
Proper noun
f.gen:s:-[with an article]
de Greek mythology Cyrene