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

  • ἀηδία γάρ ἐστιν Ἀττικὴ ὥσπερ ξενική· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 84)
  • ξυμπάντων δὲ ταύτῃ προετάχθη ἡ ξενικὴ ἵπποσ ἡ τῶν μισθοφόρων, ὧν Ἀνδρόμαχοσ ὁ Ιἕρωνοσ ἦρχεν. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 3, chapter 12 5:1)
  • ἡ μὲν γὰρ αὐτῆσ ἐστι φυσική, ἡ δὲ ἑταιρική, ἡ δὲ ξενική· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, G, PLATWN 80:4)
  • ἡ δὲ ξενικὴ φιλία ἡ ἀπὸ συστάσεωσ καὶ διὰ γραμμάτων γινομένη πρὸσ τοὺσ ξένουσ. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, G, PLATWN 80:8)
  • τῆσ ἄρα φιλίασ ἡ μέν ἐστι φυσική, ἡ δὲ ἑταιρική, ἡ δὲ ξενική· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, G, PLATWN 80:9)

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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