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

  • καὶ πάντεσ οἱ κυκλόθεν ἐνίσχυσαν ἐν χερσὶν αὐτῶν ἐν σκεύεσιν ἀργυρίου, ἐν χρυσῷ, ἐν ἀποσκευῇ καὶ ἐν κτήνεσι καὶ ἐν ξενίοισ, πάρεξ τῶν ἑκουσίων. (Septuagint, Liber Esdrae II 1:6)
  • ὁ δὲ τοὺσ ἀφικνουμένουσ πάνυ φιλοφρόνωσ ὑποδεχόμενοσ ξενίοισ τε καὶ ταῖσ ἄλλαισ δωρεαῖσ πολυτελέσιν εὔνουσ ἐργαζόμενοσ αὑτῷ ἀπέπεμπεν οὐκ ἀπαγγελοῦντασ μόνον τὰσ ἐρωτήσεισ, ἀλλὰ καὶ ὑμνήσοντασ τὸν θεὸν καὶ τεράστια ὑπὲρ τοῦ μαντείου καὶ αὐτοὺσ ψευσομένουσ. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 31:3)
  • "ἐφ’ οὗ Μέλανθοσ Μεσσήνιοσ ἐκπεσὼν τῆσ πατρίδοσ ἐπήρετο τὴν Πυθίαν ὅπου κατοικήσει, ἡ δὲ ἔφη, ἔνθα ἂν ξενίοισ πρῶτον τιμηθῇ τοὺσ πόδασ αὐτῷ καὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν ἐπὶ τῷ δείπνῳ παραθέντων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 507)
  • τοῦτο Ποσειδάωνι φίλον, ξενίοισ τε θεοῖσιν χαίρεθ’ ἁλιπλανέεσ, χαίρεθ’ ὁδοιπλανέεσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 427 1:1)
  • οὐδὲ γὰρ ἂν εἰή δίκαιον, χθὲσ ὑπὸ σοῦ ξενισθέντασ οἷσ ἦν πρέπον ξενίοισ, μὴ οὐ προθύμωσ σὲ τοὺσ λοιποὺσ ἡμῶν ἀνταφεστιᾶν. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 3:2)

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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