Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ξενόεις

First/Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ξενόεις ξενόεσσα ξενόεν

Structure: ξενοεντ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ce/nos

Sense

  1. full of strangers

Examples

  • ἐπὶ δ’ ἔσεισεν κόμαν, παῦσαι νυχίουσ ἐνοπάσ, ἀπὸ δ’ ἀλαθοσύναν νυκτωπὸν ἐξεῖλεν βροτῶν, καὶ τιμὰσ πάλιν θῆκε Λοξίᾳ, πολυάνορι δ’ ἐν ξενόεντι θρόνῳ θάρση βροτοῖσ θεσφάτων ἀοιδαῖσ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, choral, antistrophe 16)

Synonyms

  1. full of strangers

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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