πρόξενος
Second declension Noun; Masc/Fem
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
πρόξενος
προξένου
Structure:
προξεν
(Stem)
+
ος
(Ending)
Sense
- a public foreigner, public guest or friend, made so by an act of the state
- in ancient inscriptions the πρόξενος (próxenos) seems to be a public officer who had to do with registration of wills
Declension
Second declension
The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.
Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.
- ποῦ πρόξενοι; (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, iambics 3:1)
- ἔτυχον δὲ κατὰ τὸν αὐτὸν χρόνον ἀφιγμένοι πρὸσ τοὺσ Νεαπολίτασ πρέσβεισ ὑπὸ Ταραντίνων ἀποσταλέντεσ, ἄνδρεσ ἐπιφανεῖσ καὶ πρόξενοι διὰ γένουσ τῶν Νεαπολιτῶν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 15, chapter 5 6:1)
- πρόξενοι μέντοι πολλοὶ διὰ τῶν πολιτευομένων γεγόνασι παρ’ ὑμῖν τοιοῦτοι, ὧν εἷσ ἐστιν ὁ Λυκίδασ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 176:1)
- μὴ δὴ παραγόντων ὑμᾶσ, μηδ’, ὅτι δοῦλοσ ὢν ὁ Λυκίδασ καὶ Διονύσιοσ καί τισ ἴσωσ ἄλλοσ διὰ τοὺσ μισθοῦ τὰ τοιαῦτα γράφοντασ ἑτοίμωσ πρόξενοι γεγόνασι, διὰ τοῦθ’ ἑτέρουσ ἀξίουσ καὶ ἐλευθέρουσ καὶ πολλῶν ἀγαθῶν αἰτίουσ, ἃσ ἔλαβον δικαίωσ παρ’ ὑμῶν δωρειὰσ ἀφελέσθαι ζητούντων. (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 176:3)
- παῖδασ δὲ καὶ γυναῖκασ καὶ ὅσοι ὑπελείποντο Θηβαίων, πλὴν τῶν ἱερέων τε καὶ ἱερειῶν καὶ ὅσοι ξένοι Φιλίππου ἢ Ἀλεξάνδρου ἢ ὅσοι πρόξενοι Μακεδόνων ἐγένοντο, ἀνδραποδίσαι. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 1, chapter 9 9:2)
- τοὶ μὲν ὦν Θήβαισι τιμάεντεσ ἀρχᾶθεν λέγονται πρόξενοί τ’ ἀμφικτιόνων κελαδεννᾶσ τ’ ὀρφανοὶ ὕβριοσ· (Pindar, Odes, isthmian odes, isthmian 4 3:1)
