Meaning of Hyrie | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A lake, and a town situated by it, in Boeotia; Hyria.
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2. The ancient former name of Zakynthos, a Greek island on the Ionian sea.
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Examples

“Ille indignatus 'cupies dare' dixit et alto desiluit saxo; cuncti cecidisse putabant: factus olor niveis pendebat in aere pennis; at genetrix Hyrie, servati nescia, flendo”

Scorned, [Cycnus] said 'You'll want to deliver [the bull]' and from a tall rock he threw himself, all sure of his death, but in mid-air, made into a swan, by pearly feathers stood. His mother Hyrie, however, not knowing him saved, weeping wasted away and was turned into a lake.

“In ora autem infra Thebas Ocalee, Eteonos, Scolos, Schoenos, Peteon, Hyrie, Mycalesos, Ireseum et Eleon, Ollarum, Tanagra, liber populus, et in ipsis faucibus Euripi, quem facit obiecta insula Euboea, Aulis capaci nobilis portu. Boeotos Hyantas antiquitus dixere. On the coast below Thebes are Ocalee, Heleon, Scolos, Schoenos, Peteon, Hyrie, Mycalesos, Ireseum, Pteleon, Olyarum, Tanagra (a free state), and right in the channel of the Euripus, formed by the island of Euboea lying opposite, Aulis, famous for its spacious harbour. The Boeotians had the name of Hyantes in earlier days.”

“c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 4.12”

Between Same and the coast of Achaia lies Zakynthos, distinguished by its fine town and remarkable for the fertility of its soil; it was at one time called Hyrie. It is 25 miles from the southern part of Cephallenia.

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