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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

  • οὔτοι καμοῦμαί σοι λέγουσα τἀγαθά, ὡσ μήποτ’ εἴπῃσ πρὸσ νεωτέρασ ἐμοῦ θεὸσ παλαιὰ καὶ πολισσούχων βροτῶν ἄτιμοσ ἔρρειν τοῦδ’ ἀπόξενοσ πέδου. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, choral, antistrophe 2 1:1)
  • ἐγὼ δ’ ἀλήτησ τῆσδε γῆσ ἀπόξενοσ, ζῶν καὶ τεθνηκὼσ τάσδε κληδόνασ λιπών. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode, anapests 3:4)
  • φυγὰσ δ’ ἀλήτησ τῆσδε γῆσ ἀπόξενοσ κάτεισιν, ἄτασ τάσδε θριγκώσων φίλοισ· (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode 2:28)

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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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