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ξεν-όω , Ion. ξεινόω , (ξένος)
A.make one's friend and guest, entertain, in Med., “ξενοῦμαι” A.Supp.927, cf. A.R.1.849 : fut. “ξενώσεται” Lyc. 92.
II. mostly in Pass., with fut. Med. “ξενώσομαι” S.Ph.303 : pf. ἐξένωμαι : aor. ἐξενώθην (ἐξενώθησαν Ἀττικῶς: ἐξενίσθησαν Ἑλληνικῶς Moer.p.167 P.):
1. enter into a treaty of hospitality with one, “πόλιες ἀλλήλῃσι ἐξεινώθησαν” Hdt.6.21, cf. Pl.Lg.642e, X.Ages.8.5 ; “βασιλεῦσιν ἐξενωμένος” Lys.6.48 : abs., X.HG4.1.34.
2. take up one's abode with one as a guest, to be entertained, “Θήβᾳ ξενωθείς” Pi.P.4.299, cf. A.Ch.702, S. l. c., etc. ; “ξενωθεὶς τοῖσδ᾽ ἐν . . δόμοις” E.Alc.68 ; ξενοῦται τῷ Ξενοφῶντι, [παρ᾽] Ἑλλάδι, X.An.7.8.6,8 ; “ξενωθεὶς ὑπὸ τᾶς βουλᾶς” IG12(1).383 (Rhodes).
3. reside abroad, “δαρὸν ἐξενωμένου” S.Tr.65, cf. E.Ion 820 ; go into banishment, Id.Hipp. 1085.
III. later, in Act., deprive one of a thing, “[τινά] τινος” Hld.6.7.
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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