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Kyrenæan
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- 1 Dated form of Cyrenian. alt-of, dated
"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."
- 1 Dated form of Cyrenian. alt-of, dated
"The Kyrenæans under him took pains to invite new settlers from all parts of Greece without distinction—a circumstance deserving notice in Grecian colonization, which usually manifested a preference for certain races, if it did not positively exclude the rest."
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Κυρηναῖος (Kurēnaîos) + -an.
From Ancient Greek Κυρηναῖος (Kurēnaîos) + -an.
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