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ἀπόξενος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπόξενος ἀπόξενη ἀπόξενον

Structure: ἀποξεν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. alien to guests, inhospitable, far from, banished from

Examples

  • Ἄρεά τε τὸν μαλερόν, ὃσ νῦν ἄχαλκοσ ἀσπίδων φλέγει με περιβόατον, ἀντιάζω παλίσσυτον δράμημα νωτίσαι πάτρασ ἔπουρον, εἴτ’ ἐσ μέγαν θάλαμον Ἀμφιτρίτασ εἴτ’ ἐσ τὸν ἀπόξενον ὁρ́μων Θρῄκιον κλύδωνα· (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, choral, strophe 31)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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