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

  • γενομένων δὲ ^ τούτων ὡσ προσέταξεν, τοὺσ μὲν λέοντασ ἐκνηξαμένουσ εἰσ τὴν πολεμίαν οἱ βάρβαροι ξύλοισ κατειργάσαντο ὥσ τινασ κύνασ ἢ λύκουσ ξενικούσ· (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 48:5)
  • ἐν Τειχιοῦντι δὲ τῆσ Μιλήτου μιγάδων οἰκούντων ὡσ ἑώρα πάντασ τοὺσ τάφουσ ξενικοὺσ ὄντασ ’̔ ἀπίωμεν ἔφη, ’ παῖ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 43 3:2)
  • λέγει γάρ, ὅτι κωλύουσιν οἱ Τυρίων νόμοι ξενικοὺσ ὁρ́κουσ ὀμνύειν, ἐν οἷσ μετά τινων ἄλλων καὶ τὸν καλούμενον ὁρ́κον κορβὰν καταριθμεῖ. (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 189:1)
  • λέγειν ξενικούσ τε καὶ παντοδαπούσ. (Plato, Republic, book 8 560:1)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἠξιοῦμεν ὑμᾶσ πείρᾳ τῆσ τοῦ θεοῦ γνώμησ ἐντὸσ γεγενημένουσ καὶ νόμων ὧν αὐτὸσ ἡμῖν δέδωκεν ἀκροατὰσ ὑπάρχοντασ, διαζευχθέντασ ἡμῶν καὶ παρόντασ εἰσ τὸν ἴδιον κλῆρον, ὃν κατὰ χάριν τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ τῆσ ἐκείνου περὶ ἡμᾶσ προνοίασ ἐλάχετε, λήθην λαβεῖν αὐτοῦ καὶ τὴν σκηνὴν καὶ τὴν κιβωτὸν καταλιπόντασ καὶ βωμὸν ὃσ ἡμῖν πάτριοσ ξενικοὺσ θεοὺσ ἐπιφέρειν τοῖσ Χαναναίων κακοῖσ προσκεχωρηκότασ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 5 134:1)

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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