Definition of Gyrene

1. a marine [n -S] - See also: marine

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gyrene

gyration
gyrational
gyrations
gyraton
gyrator
gyratories
gyrators
gyratory
gyratory crusher
gyre
gyrectomy
gyred
gyreful
gyrencephala
gyrencephalic
gyrene (current term)
gyrenes
gyres
gyrfalcon
gyrfalcons
gyri
gyri breves insulae
gyri insulae
gyri orbitales
gyri temporales transversi
gyrinal
gyring
gyrland
gyrlands
gyro

Literary usage of Gyrene

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Types of Greek Coins: An Archaeological Essay by Percy Gardner (1883)
"The art of gyrene stood almost as much apart from the general current of Greek art as ... There was no doubt constant intercourse between gyrene and Greece, ..."

2. The Classical Heritage of the Middle Ages by Henry Osborn Taylor (1901)
"Synesius of gyrene Synesius, a native of gyrene, an ancient but decayed Greek city of the Libyan Pentapolis, was a live Hellenic personality of the end of ..."

3. A Short Manual of Comparative Philology for Classical Students by Peter Giles (1901)
"gyrene preserved some of these peculiarities long after its mother city Thera had changed to the milder Doric. 9. RHODES WITH ITS COLONIES GELA AND ..."

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