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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

  • καὶ ταῦτα λέγω ὡσ οὐχ ὑγιέσ τι Κρατιστόλου καὶ Πολυξένου πρὸσ σὲ εἰρηκότων, ὧν φασὶ λέγειν τὸν ἕτερον ὅτι ἀκούοι Ὀλυμπίασι πολλῶν τινων τῶν μετ’ ἐμοῦ σε κακηγορούντων. (Plato, Epistles, Letter 2 4:3)
  • περὶ δὲ Πολυξένου ἐθαύμασασ ὅτι πέμψαιμί σοι· (Plato, Epistles, Letter 2 30:2)
  • "ἀλλ’ οὐ προέγνων ἐπεὶ καλῶσ εἶχέ μοι μᾶλλον Πολυξένου γυναῖκα φεύγοντοσ ἢ σοῦ τυραννοῦντοσ ἀδελφὴν λέγεσθαι. (Plutarch, Dion, chapter 21 5:3)
  • Ἀμφιτρύων δὲ παρὰ Πολυξένου λυτρωσάμενοσ αὐτὰσ ἤγαγεν εἰσ Μυκήνασ. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 2, chapter 4 6:5)
  • " Πολυξένου ποτὲ τοῦ σοφιστοῦ εἰσελθόντοσ πρὸσ αὐτὸν καὶ θεασαμένου γυναῖκάσ τε καὶ πολυτελῆ ὀψωνίαν, ἔπειτα αἰτιασαμένου, μικρὸν διαλιπών, "δύνασαι," ἔφη, "καὶ σὺ σήμερον μεθ’ ἡμῶν γενέσθαι; (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, B, Kef. h'. ARISTIPPOS 12:6)

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

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