ξένος: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=[[ξένος]], ὁ,<br /><b class="num">I.</b> a [[guest]]-[[friend]], I. e. any [[citizen]] of a [[foreign]] [[state]], with whom one has a [[treaty]] of [[hospitality]] for [[self]] and heirs, confirmed by [[mutual]] presents (ξένιἀ and an [[appeal]] to [[Ζεύς|Ζεὺς]] [[ξένιος]], Hom.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> of one of the parties [[bound]] by ties of [[hospitality]], i. e. [[either]] the [[guest]], or = [[ξεινοδόκος]], the [[host]], Hom., Hdt., etc.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> any one entitled to [[hospitality]], a [[stranger]], [[refugee]], Od.<br /><b class="num">4.</b> any [[stranger]] or [[foreigner]], Hes., [[attic]]:—the [[term]] was [[politely]] used of any one whose [[name]] was [[unknown]], and the [[address]] ὦ ξένε came to [[mean]] [[little]] [[more]] [[than]] [[friend]], Soph.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> a [[foreign]] [[soldier]], [[hireling]], [[mercenary]], Thuc., Xen. <br />2<br /><b class="num">I.</b> [[foreign]], Soph., Eur., etc.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> c. gen. rei, [[strange]] to a [[thing]], [[ignorant]] of it, Soph.:—adv., [[ξένως]] ἔχω τῆς λέξεως I am a [[stranger]] to the [[language]], Plat.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> [[alien]], [[strange]], [[unusual]], Aesch.