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ξεναρκής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ξεναρκής ξεναρκές

Structure: ξεναρκη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: a)rke/w

Sense

  1. aiding strangers

Examples

  • Ξενάρκει μὲν δὴ καὶ ἐν Δελφοῖσ καὶ ἐν Ἄργει τε ὑπῆρξε καὶ ἐν Κορίνθῳ προσανελέσθαι νίκασ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 2 4:1)
  • δέξαιτο δ’ Αἰακιδᾶν ἠύ̈πυργον ἕδοσ, δίκᾳ ξεναρκέϊ κοινὸν φέγγοσ. (Pindar, Odes, nemean odes, nemean 4 3:2)

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

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