Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ξενικός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ξενικός ξενική ξενικόν

Structure: ξενικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of or for a stranger, of foreign kind, the taxes paid by aliens, the class of aliens, in which aliens sued or were sued
  2. hired for service, mercenary, a body of mercenaries
  3. hospitable, friendly, friendly relation
  4. foreign, alien, foreign, foreign, abounding in unusual words

Examples

  • ὅτι ἡμῖν ἱκανά, ὦ Ἀνάχαρσι, ταῦτα τὰ γυμνάσια οἰκεῖα ὄντα ζηλοῦν δὲ τὰ ξενικὰ οὐ πάνυ ἀξιοῦμεν. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 39:5)
  • οὐδὲ γὰρ πρὸσ τὸ μύρον, φαίη τισ ἄν, οὐδὲ πρὸσ τὰ ξενικὰ τῶν ἡδυσμάτων ἀλλὰ καὶ τούτων ἀποτρέπεσθε, τὸ μὴ χρήσιμον μηδ’ ἀναγκαῖον ἐν ἡδονῇ πανταχόθεν ἐξελαύνοντεσ. (Plutarch, De esu carnium II, section 6 4:1)
  • τὸ γὰρ πέπερι καὶ κόμμι καὶ κοῖφι ξενικά. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 73 3:4)
  • "ἐπεὶ δὲ μύθων καὶ λόγων ἀναμεμιγμένων κρατὴρ ἐν μέσῳ πρόκειται ̔ καὶ ποῦ τισ ἂν εὐμενεστέροισ ἀκροαταῖσ ἐπιτυχὼν ὥσπερ νομίσματα ξενικὰ τούτουσ δοκιμάσειε τοὺσ λόγουσ; (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 214)
  • ὅθεν οὐδ’ ἀποδημεῖν ἔδωκε τοῖσ βουλομένοισ καὶ πλανᾶσθαι, ξενικὰ συνάγοντασ ἤθη καὶ μιμήματα βίων ἀπαιδεύτων καὶ πολιτευμάτων διαφόρων, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοὺσ ἀθροιζομένουσ ἐπ’ οὐδενὶ χρησίμῳ καὶ παρεισρέοντασ εἰσ τὴν πόλιν ἀπήλαυνεν, οὐχ, ὡσ Θουκυδίδησ φησί, δεδιὼσ μὴ τῆσ πολιτείασ μιμηταὶ γένωνται καὶ πρὸσ ἀρετήν τι χρήσιμον ἐκμάθωσιν, ἀλλὰ μᾶλλον ὅπωσ μὴ διδάσκαλοι κακοῦ τινοσ ὑπάρξωσιν. (Plutarch, Lycurgus, chapter 27 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. hired for service

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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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