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ξένος , , Ep. and Ion. ξεῖνος (also freq. in Pi., N.7.61, al., used by Trag. metri gr. even in trim., mostly in voc., S.OC33, al., E.IT798 codd., El.247), Aeol. ξέννος Hdn.Gr. 2.302; scanned _^ and written ξεῖνος in Theoc.28.6, 30.17 : Aeol. Sup. ξεννότατος Sch. Tz. in An. Ox. 3.356.18 (sed v. fin.).
2. of parties giving or receiving hospitality, Od.8.145, etc. ; mostly of the guest, opp. the host, ξεινοδόκοι καὶ ξεῖνος ib.543, etc. ; ξείνα the visitor, Theoc.2.154 ; of guests at a club, opp. σύνδειπνοι, PTeb.118.4 (ii B. C.) : less freq. of the host, Il.15.532, A.R.1.208, Ep.Rom.16.23, etc. : c. dat., “ξεῖνός τινιHdt.1.20,22, cf. Th.2.13, X.An.1.1.10, etc. ; also ξ. τινός ib. 2.4.15.
III. generally, stranger, foreigner, opp. ἔνδημος, Hes.Op.225; opp. ἀστός, Pi.O.7.90, S.OC13, And.4.10, etc. ; “πολιατᾶν καὶ ξ.Pi.I.1.51, cf. A. Th.924 (lyr.), Pl.Grg. 473d, etc. ; opp. ἐπιχώριος, Id.Men.94d: coupled with μέτοικος, Th. 4.90, cf. IG12.39.53 ; with ἔπηλυς, Luc.Herm.24 ; opp. a member of the family, PMasp.169.10 (vi A. D.), etc.
b. as a term of address to any stranger, ξένεE.Ion247, Mosch.1.5, etc. ; “ ξένηPl.Smp. 204c.
2. = βάρβαρος, at Sparta, Hdt.9.11,55.
IV. hireling, Od.14.102 ; esp. mercenary soldier, IG12.949.89, X.An.1.1.10, D.18.152, etc. ; “ξ. ναυβάταιTh.1.121 : rarely simply, ally, X.Lac. 12.3.
B. as Adj. ξένος , η, ον (also ος, ον E.Supp.94), Ion. ξεῖνος , η, ον, foreign, not in Hom. (in the phrases “ξεῖνε πάτερOd.7.28, “ἄνθρωποι ξεῖνοιIl.24.202, both words are Subst.) ; freq. in later writers, “ξείνα γαῖαPi.P.4.118 codd.; “ξένης ἐπὶ χθονόςS.OC1256 ; γᾶς ἐπὶ ξένας ib. 1705 (lyr., cf. ξένη); ἐν ξένῃσι χερσί by foreign hands, Id.El.1141 ; ξ. δόμοι, πόλις, etc., E.Ph.339 (lyr.), 369, etc. ; of alien property, “ξ. ἄρουραιPMasp.295.22 (vi A.D.).
II. c. gen. rei, strange to a thing, unacquainted with, ignorant of it, “ξ. τοῦ λόγουS.OT219, cf. AP4.3a.37 (Agath.); “ξ. τῶν διαθηκῶν τῆς ἐπαγγελίαςEp.Eph.2.12, cf. BGU405.12 (iv A. D.). Adv. ξένως, ἔχω τῆς ἐνθάδε λέξεως I am a stranger to the mode of speech, Pl.Ap.17d ; “ἔχειν τῆς διαλέκτουThem. Or.21.253c.
2. τοῦ πνεύματος . . ῥύσις ὡς -ωτάτη air as fresh as possible, Hp.Nat.Hom.9. (From ξένϝος, cf. “πρόξενϝοςIG9(1).867, Ξενϝάρης ib.869, Ξενϝοκλῆς, Ξένϝων, ib.4.315,348 : hence it is improb. that the Aeol. form was ξέννος.
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