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

  • "κατὰ δὲ τὸν συσσιτικὸν οἶκον πρῶτον μὲν κεῖνται δύο τράπεζαι ξενικαὶ καλούμεναι, αἷσ προκαθίζουσι τῶν ξένων οἱ παρόντεσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 227)
  • ταῦθ’ ὑμῖν ἐγὼ καὶ ζῶν διενοήθην γίγνεσθαι καὶ νῦν διανοοῦμαι, καὶ τότε κρατήσασ τῶν ἐχθρῶν μεθ’ ὑμῶν, εἰ μὴ ξενικαὶ ἐρινύεσ ἐκώλυσαν, κατέστησα <ἂν> ᾗπερ καὶ διενοούμην, καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα Σικελίαν ἂν τὴν ἄλλην, εἴπερ ἔργα ἐπὶ νῷ ἐγίγνετο, κατῴκισα, τοὺσ μὲν βαρβάρουσ ἣν νῦν ἔχουσιν ἀφελόμενοσ, ὅσοι μὴ ὑπὲρ τῆσ κοινῆσ ἐλευθερίασ διεπολέμησαν πρὸσ τὴν τυραννίδα, τοὺσ δ’ ἔμπροσθεν οἰκητὰσ τῶν Ἑλληνικῶν τόπων εἰσ τὰσ ἀρχαίασ καὶ πατρῴασ οἰκήσεισ κατοικίσασ· (Plato, Epistles, Letter 8 34:2)

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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