Κυρίτων

Quirites

Translated by David Whitehead25 Oct 2005Vetting: high4 revisions

3 words

A proper name.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Κυρίτων· ὄνομα κύριον.

Betacode

*kuri/twn: o)/noma ku/rion.

An archaic name for the citizens of Rome in their civil capacity (see Lewis & Short s.v. Quiris). Here in Greek transliteration (and in the genitive plural, extracted from somewhere; Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Strabo have instances (but all as *Kuritw=n).

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