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ἀλλότριος , Aeol. ἀλλότερρος EM529.24, α, ον, (ἄλλος)
A.of or belonging to another, βίοτος, νηῦς, ἄχεα, Od.1.160, 9.535, Il.20.298; γυνή another man's wife, A.Ag.448 (lyr.); ἀλλοτρίων χαρίσασθαι to be bountiful of what is another's, Od.17.452; γναθμοῖσι γελοίων ἀλλοτρίοισιν with faces unlike their own, of a forced, unnatural laugh, ib.20.347; ἀ. ὄμμασιν εἷρπον by the help of another's eyes, S.OC 146(lyr.); οὐκ ἀ. ἄτην not inflicted by other hands, Id.Ant.1259; but ἀ. φόνος murder of a stranger (cf. 11.1), Pl.Euthphr.4b: prov., ἀ. ἀμᾶν θέρος reap where one has not sown, Ar.Eq.392, cf. Hes.Th.599; ἀλλοτριωτάτοις τοῖς σώμασιν χρῆσθαι deal with one's body as if it belonged to another, Th.1.70; τὰ ἀλλότρια, contr. τἀλλότρια, what belongs to others, not one's own, τἀ. ἀποστερεῖν, δειπνεῖν, X.Ages.4.1, Theopomp. Com.34.
II. opp. οἰκεῖος, foreign, strange,
1. of persons, “ἀ. φώς” stranger, Od.18.219, cf. Ar.Ra.481; almost = enemy, Il.5.214, Od.16.102; οὐδέ τις ἀλλοτρίων no stranger, Hdt.3.155; “εἴτε ἀ. εἴτε οἰκεῖος ὁ τεθνεώς” Pl.Euthphr.4b; “ἀ. τῆς πόλεως” Lys.28.6; “οὐδείς ἐστί μοι ἀ., ἂν ᾖ χρηστός” Men.602; ἀλλοτριώτερος τῶνπαίδων less near than thy children, Hdt.3.119; ἀλλοτριώτερος, opp. οἰκειότερος, Arist.EN 1162a3: c. dat., “ἀλλότριοι ὑμῖν ὄντες” Isoc. 14.51.
b. hostile, unfavourably disposed, c. gen., “ἀ. Ῥωμαίων” Plb.28.4.4; “-ώτατος μοναρχίας” D.S.16.65; “ἀλλότρια φρονῶν τοῦ βασιλέως” Plb.36.15.7, cf. OGI90.19 (Rosetta).
c. disinclined, “πρὸς τὰς κακοπαθείας” Plb.36.15.2.
2. of things, alien, strange, “τροφή” Pl.R.491d (Comp.), etc.; εἴ τι πρότερον γέγονεν ἀ. estrangement, Decr. ap. D.18.185; “ἡ ἀ.” alien country, enemy's country, Lys.2.6, Isoc.10.50, cf. Hdt.8.73: c. gen., alien from, “ἐπιτηδεύματα δημοκρατίας ἀ.” Lys.31.34; οὐδὲν ἀ. ποιῶν τοῦ τρόπου Decr. ap. D.18.182.
b. Medic., abnormal, Sor.2.5, Gal.14.780; ἀ. σάρκες superfluous fat, Pl.R.556d.
c. foreign to the purpose, “λόγοι” Arist.EE1218b23: Comp., Id.EN1159b24: Sup., Id.Cat.15b29, cf. Polystr.p.17 W.
d. Astrol., = ἀπόστροφος, POxy. 464.16.
III. Adv. ἀλλοτρίως, διακεῖσθαι πρὸς ἀλλήλας to be unfavourably disposed towards . . , Lys.33.1, cf.Isoc.12.159; ἄ. ἔχειν πρός . . Id.5.80: Comp. “-ιώτερον” less favourably, D.18.9.
2. strangely, marvellously, Epigr.Gr.989.2.
3. in a manner foreign to, c. gen., Pers.Stoic.1.1co. [-ο_τρ- only in Men.557 s. v. l.]
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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