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ἐχθρόξενος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐχθρόξενος ἐχθρόξενον

Structure: ἐχθροξεν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. hostile to guests, inhospitable

Examples

  • ὅμωσ δ’ ἐπ’ αὐτῷ φῶτα, Λασθένουσ βίαν, ἐχθρόξενον πυλωρὸν ἀντιτάξομεν, γέροντα τὸν νοῦν, σάρκα δ’ ἡβῶσαν φύει, ποδῶκεσ ὄμμα, χεῖρα δ’ οὐ βραδύνεται παρ’ ἀσπίδοσ γυμνωθὲν ἁρπάσαι δόρυ. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, strophe 3 3:3)

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

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