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ξένιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ξένιος ξένιᾱ ξένιον

Structure: ξενι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. belonging to a friend and guest, hospitable, protector of the rights of hospitality, the guests', bound, by ties of hospitality
  2. friendly gifts, meat and drink, as a friendly gift, to eat with you
  3. foreign

Examples

  • εὐπρεπέστερον Πάρισ ξενίαν κατῄσχυν’ ἢ σὺ συμμάχουσ κτανών. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, antistrophe 1 1:6)
  • ἐξαιρέτωσ δὲ τὴν Δήμητροσ πλάνην καὶ Κόρησ εὑρ́εσιν καὶ Κελεοῦ ξενίαν καὶ Τριπτολέμου γεωργίαν καὶ Ἰκαρίου ἀμπελουργίαν καὶ τὴν Ἠριγόνησ συμφοράν, καὶ ὅσα περὶ Βορέου καὶ ὅσα περὶ Ὠρειθυίασ καὶ Θησέωσ καὶ Αἰγέωσ. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 40:2)
  • διόπερ οὐδὲ πρότερον ἠρώτων οἵτινεσ εἰε͂ν ἀλλ’ ὕστερον, ὡσ τὴν ξενίαν αὐτὴν τιμῶντεσ, ἀλλ’ οὐ τοὺσ ἐν μέρει καὶ καθ’ ἕκαστον ἡμῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 22)
  • εἰσὶ δὲ καὶ γραφαὶ πρὸσ αὐτοὺσ ὧν παράστασισ τίθεται, ξενίασ καὶ δωροξενίασ, ἄν τισ δῶρα δοὺσ ἀποφύγῃ τὴν ξενίαν, καὶ συκοφαντίασ καὶ δώρων καὶ ψευδεγγραφῆσ καὶ ψευδοκλητείασ καὶ βουλεύσεωσ καὶ ἀγραφίου καὶ μοιχείασ. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 59 3:1)
  • "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)

Synonyms

  1. foreign

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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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