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

  • "ἦσαν δὲ καὶ ξενικοὶ θᾶκοι καὶ τράπεζα τρίτη δεξιᾶσ εἰσιόντων εἰσ τὰ ἀνδρεῖα, ἣν Ξενίου τε Διὸσ ξενίαν τε προσηγόρευον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 22 2:6)
  • ὅταν οὖν ἀποδείξῃ τοῖσ μὲν ὑπὸ τῆσ βουλῆσ στεφανουμένοισ τὸ βουλευτήριον ἀναρρηθῆναι, τοῖσ δ’ ὑπὸ τοῦ δήμου τὴν ἐκκλησίαν, τοῖσ δ’ ὑπὸ τῶν δημοτῶν καὶ φυλετῶν ἀπείπῃ μὴ κηρύττεσθαι τοῖσ τραγῳδοῖσ, ἵνα μηδεὶσ ἐρανίζων στεφάνουσ καὶ κηρύγματα ψευδῆ φιλοτιμίαν κτᾶται, προσαπείπῃ δ’ ἐν τῷ νόμῳ μηδ’ ὑπὸ ἄλλου μηδενὸσ ἀνακηρύττεσθαι, ἀπούσησ βουλῆσ καὶ δήμου καὶ φυλετῶν καὶ δημοτῶν, ‐ ὅταν δέ τισ ταῦτα ἀφέλῃ, τί τὸ καταλειπόμενόν ἐστι πλὴν οἱ ξενικοὶ στέφανοι; (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 45 1:1)

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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