Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • μῶν δ’ οὖν κἀμὲ ξενίασ διώκεισ ; (Lucian, Deorum concilium, (no name) 6:9)
  • κατὰ Πυθέου ξενίασ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Dinarcho, chapter 108)
  • κατ’ Ἀγασικλέουσ εἰσαγγελία ξενίασ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Dinarcho, chapter 10 1:15)
  • ἕκαστοσ γοῦν τῶν γεγηρακότων καὶ σπεύδει καὶ εὔχεται καταλῦσαι τὸν βίον ἐπὶ τῆσ πατρίδοσ, ἵν’, ὅθεν ἤρξατο βιοῦν, ἐνταῦθα πάλιν καὶ τὸ σῶμα παρακατάθηται τῇ γῇ τῇ θρεψαμένῃ καὶ τῶν πατρῴων κοινωνήσῃ τάφων δεινὸν γὰρ ἑκάστῳ δοκεῖ ξενίασ ἁλίσκεσθαι καὶ μετὰ θάνατον, ἐν ἀλλοτρίᾳ κειμένῳ γῇ. (Lucian, Patriae Encomium, (no name) 9:3)
  • εἰ δὲ τοὔμπαλιν, σύ μοι γενοῦ τιμωρὸσ ἀνδρόσ, ἀνοσιωτάτου ξένου, ὃσ οὔτε τοὺσ γῆσ νέρθεν οὔτε τοὺσ ἄνω δείσασ δέδρακεν ἔργον ἀνοσιώτατον, κοινῆσ τραπέζησ πολλάκισ τυχὼν ἐμοί, ξενίασ τ’ ἀριθμῷ πρῶτ’ ἔχων ἐμῶν φίλων, τυχὼν δ’ ὅσων δεῖ ‐ . (Euripides, Hecuba, episode, iambics 1:27)

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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