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Xe'nia

*Ceni/a), and the masculine Xenios are epithets of Athena and Zeus, describing then as presiding over the laws of hospitality, and protecting strangers. (Lat. Hospitalis ; Paus. 3.11, in fin.; Hom. Od. 14.389; Cic. ad Q. Frat. 2.12.)

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