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Meaning of Kyrenæan | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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