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

  • εἴσῃ γὰρ ὅση πρὸσ τὸν Ξένιον ἡ αἰδὼσ καὶ ἡ ἄλλη ἐπιείκεια καὶ χρηστότησ. (Lucian, Scytha 13:4)
  • "εἰ τέσσαρα γένη τῆσ φιλίασ ἐχούσησ, ὥσπερ οἱ παλαιοὶ διώρισαν, τὸ φυσικὸν πρῶτον εἶτα τὸ συγγενικὸν ἐπὶ τούτῳ καὶ τρίτον τὸ ἑταιρικὸν καὶ τελευταῖον τὸ ἐρωτικόν, ἔχει τούτων ἕκαστον ἐπιστάτην θεὸν ἢ φίλιον ἢ ξένιον ἢ ὁμόγνιον καὶ πατρῷον μόνον δὲ τὸ ἐρωτικὸν ὥσπερ δυσιεροῦν ἀνόσιον καὶ ἀδέσποτον ἀφεῖται, καὶ ταῦτα πλείστησ ἐπιμελείασ καὶ κυβερνήσεωσ δεόμενον; (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 16 1:1)
  • τὼσ πόλισ εὖ νέμοιτο Ζῆνα μέγαν σεβόντων, τὸν ξένιον δ’ ὑπερτάτωσ, ὃσ πολιῷ νόμῳ αἶσαν ὀρθοῖ. (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, choral, antistrophe 22)
  • ἂν δ’ εὐθὺσ ἁρπάξαισ ἀρούρασ δεξιτερᾷ προτυχὸν ξένιον μάστευσε δοῦναι. (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 4 11:2)
  • φίλοισι γὰρ φίλοσ ἐλθὼν ξένιον ἄστυ κατέδρακεν Ἡρακλέοσ ὀλβίαν πρὸσ αὐλάν. (Pindar, Odes, nemean odes, nemean 4 6:1)

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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