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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)
  • 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)
  • 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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