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ξενα_γ-έω ,
A.to be a leader of mercenaries, “ξ. ξενικοῦ” X.HG4.3.15, cf. 4.3.17, D.23.139, Arr.Fr.99J.
II. guide strangers, show them the sights, ἄριστά σοι ἐξενάγηται your work as a guide has been done excellently, Pl.Phdr.230c ; ξεναγούμενος one seeing the sights, ibid. ; “ξενάγησόν με νέηλυν ὄντα” Luc.DMort.18.1, cf. Cont.I : metaph., generally, guide, direct, Alciphr.1.26 ; “ξ. τινὰ πρὸς τὰς Μούσας” Them.Or.9.123b, cf. Ph.2.330 :—Pass., “ὑπὸ σοφίας ξ.” Id.1.630.
III. Med., receive hospitality, Procop.Goth.3.9 :—so in Pass., ib.4.22.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (7):
    • Demosthenes, Against Aristocrates, 139
    • Plato, Phaedrus, 230c
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 4.3.15
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 4.3.17
    • Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 18.1
    • Procopius, de Bellis, 3.9
    • Procopius, de Bellis, 4.22
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