Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • αἰτεῖ δ’ ἀδελφὴν τὴν ἐμὴν Πολυξένην τύμβῳ φίλον πρόσφαγμα καὶ γέρασ λαβεῖν. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode 3:3)
  • ἔδοξ’ Ἀχαιοῖσ παῖδα σὴν Πολυξένην σφάξαι πρὸσ ὀρθὸν χῶμ’ Ἀχιλλείου τάφου. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode4)
  • λαβὼν δ’ Ἀχιλλέωσ παῖσ Πολυξένην χερὸσ ἔστησ’ ἐπ’ ἄκρου χώματοσ, πέλασ δ’ ἐγώ· (Euripides, Hecuba, episode 1:4)
  • ἥδ’ οὐδὲν οἶδεν, ἀλλά μοι Πολυξένην θρηνεῖ, νέων δὲ πημάτων οὐχ ἅπτεται. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode11)
  • Πολυξένην ἔλεξασ, ἢ τίν’ ἱστορεῖσ; (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, lyric19)

Related

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

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