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πολύξενος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολύξενος

Structure: πολυξεν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. entertaining many guests, very hospitable
  2. visited by many guests

Examples

  • πολύξεναι νεάνιδεσ ἀμφίπολοι πειθοῦσ ἐν ἀφνειῷ Κορίνθῳ, αἵ τε τὰσ χλωρᾶσ λιβάνου ξανθὰ δάκρη θυμιᾶτε, πολλάκι ματέρ’ Ἐρώτων οὐρανίαν πτάμεναι νόημα ποττὰν Ἀφροδίταν· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 33 2:1)

Related

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

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