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εὔξενος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὔξενος εὔξενη εὔξενον

Structure: εὐξεν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. kind to strangers, hospitable, the guest-
  2. the Euxine, the Black sea, the inhospitable (dictus ab antiquis Axenus ille fuit

Examples

  • "Εὔξενοσ δὲ ὁ Φωκαεὺσ Νάννῳ ὁ τῷ βασιλεῖ τοῦτο δ’ ἦν αὐτῷ ὄνομα ἦν ξένοσ, οὗτοσ ὁ Νάννοσ ἐπιτελῶν γάμουσ τῆσ θυγατρὸσ κατὰ τύχην παραγενόμενον τὸν Εὔξενον παρακέκληκεν ἐπὶ τὴν θοίνην. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 36 1:3)
  • "τούτου δὲ συμπεσόντοσ καὶ τοῦ πατρὸσ ἀξιοῦντοσ ὡσ κατὰ θεὸν γενομένησ τῆσ δόσεωσ ἔχειν αὐτήν, ἔλαβεν ὁ Εὔξενοσ γυναῖκα καὶ συνῴκει μεταθέμενοσ τοὔνομα Ἀριστοξένην. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 36 1:7)
  • ἔσται γὰρ καὶ ὁ Εὔξενοσ Ἀρχίδαμοσ γεωμετρικόσ. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 4 3:4)

Synonyms

  1. kind to strangers

Related

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

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