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

  • μετὰ Πυθόδοτον ἔστι Σωσιγένησ, ἐφ’ οὗ τὴν ἐνάτην διελήλυθεν κατὰ Φιλίππου δημηγορίαν περὶ τῶν ἐν Χερρονήσῳ στρατιωτῶν, ἵνα μὴ διαλυθῇ τὸ μετὰ Διοπείθουσ ξενικόν, ἀρχὴν ἔχουσαν ταύτην· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ad Ammaeum, chapter 10 2:9)
  • τὸ δ’ ἐν Κορίνθῳ ξενικὸν οὐχ οὗτοσ τρέφει; (Aristophanes, Plutus, Prologue 4:6)
  • στενομένα γὰρ ἂν πόλισ ἔχοι σκῆψιν ξενικὸν ἐσβολὰν . (Euripides, Ion, choral, epode2)
  • πέρδικα δ’ ἢ κίχλην γε νὴ Δί’ οὐκέτι ἔστιν δι’ ὑμᾶσ οὐδὲ πετομένην ἰδεῖν, τὸν ξενικὸν οἶνον ἐπιτετίμηκασ πολύ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 12 4:4)
  • ὅμοιον καὶ δίκαιον τοὺσ ξένουσ πίνειν ξενικόν, τοὺσ δ’ ἐγγενεῖσ ἐπιχώριον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 36 4:10)

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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