Meaning of Kyrenæan | Babel Free

Definitions

Dated form of Cyrenian.

alt-of, dated

Examples

“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.”

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

“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.”

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