Kyrenean

From Kyrene +‎ -an.

Kyrenean (comparative more Kyrenean, superlative most Kyrenean)

1. Alternative form of Cyrenian.
   • 1914, J[ames] A[lexander] K[err] Thomson, “Minyans and Ionians”, in Studies in the Odyssey, Oxford, Oxfordshire: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 72:

     Recall the intimate relations which we know to have subsisted between Kyrene and Arcadia: community of cults, such as that of Zeus Lykaios; the divine figure of Aristaios, son of the nymph Kyrene and a god in Arcadia; the mission of Demonax—Demonax of Mantineia—to reform the Kyrenean constitution; […]

   • 1982, Duncan Head, “Kyrene”, in Armies of the Macedonian and Punic Wars 359 BC to 146 BC […], [Goring-by-Sea, Worthing]: Wargames Research Group, →OCLC, page 23:

     In 322 Kyrene raised 30,000 troops under elected generals, but these included Libyan and Carthaginian allies. Ophellas, Ptolemy I’s governor of Kyrene, marched in 308 to join Agathokles of Syracuse with 10,000 foot, 600 horse, and 100 chariots with 300 crew, plus 10,000 non-combatants. The chariots were presumably Kyrenean; […]

   • 2015, Josiah Ober, “Creative Destruction and Immortality”, in The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece (The Princeton History of the Ancient World), Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, published 2016 (3rd printing), →ISBN, page 304:

     As the University of Chicago’s Alain Bresson argues in his definitive analysis of the document, the actual price charged by the Kyrenean state authorities was probably well below what they could have demanded in light of the grain shortage.

Kyrenean (plural Kyreneans)

1. Alternative form of Cyrenian.
   • 1982, Duncan Head, “Kyrene”, in Armies of the Macedonian and Punic Wars 359 BC to 146 BC […], [Goring-by-Sea, Worthing]: Wargames Research Group, →OCLC, page 23:

     There is no specific evidence for Kyrenean troops being called up to fight for Ptolemaic Egypt, unless the cavalry “from Libya” at Raphia were indeed Kyreneans, but it is likely they could be called on if wanted. Kyreneans however seem to have enlisted in the Ptolemaic regular army in some numbers.

   • 2003, Debra Hamel, “Notes”, in Trying Neaira: The True Story of a Courtesan’s Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, →ISBN, chapter 7 (The Feud), note 10, page 179:

     We cannot know why Stephanos disguised his witnesses as Kyreneans. Stephanos may not have wanted the court to know that the witnesses he was presenting—who were perhaps manifestly non-Greek—were slaves. But why Kyrene was selected as their country of origin is not clear.

   • 2015, Josiah Ober, “Creative Destruction and Immortality”, in The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece (The Princeton History of the Ancient World), Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, published 2016 (3rd printing), →ISBN, page 304:

     As Alain Bresson cogently argues, the Kyreneans erected the inscription because they were proud of having saved the other Greeks from a potential famine.