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Noun
афи́нянин • (afínjanin) m anim (genitive афи́нянина, nominative plural афи́няне, genitive plural афи́нян, feminine афиня́нка)
- Athenian (an inhabitant, resident, or citizen of Athens, Greece)
1891, Владимир Короленко, chapter II, in Тени (Фантазия); English translation from Thomas Seltzer, transl., The Shades, a Phantasy, 1907:Каза́лось, под покро́вами из тума́на опеча́ленные до́чери Нере́я мета́лись и би́лись о бе́рег, опла́кивая лу́чшего из афи́нян и са́мый го́род, ослеплё́нный безу́мием.- Kazálosʹ, pod pokróvami iz tumána opečálennyje dóčeri Neréja metálisʹ i bílisʹ o béreg, oplákivaja lúčševo iz afínjan i sámyj górod, oslepljónnyj bezúmijem.
- It seemed to him that the mourning daughters of Nereus were tossing hither and thither on the shore bewailing the death of the best of the Athenians and the folly of the frenzied city.
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