A.one who receives strangers, host, “ἵν᾽ ὁμῶς τερπώμεθα πάντες ξεινοδόκοι καὶ ξεῖνος” Od. 8.543 ; “ξεῖνος μιμνήσκεται ἤματα πάντα ἀνδρὸς ξεινοδόκου” 15.55, cf. Il.3.354, Od.8.210, Theoc.16.27, Jul.Or.2.96a, AP 10.15 (Paul. Sil.):—later ξενο-δόχος , Ph.2.17, al.; head of a ξενοδοχεῖον, Just.Nov.7.1, al.
ξενο-δόκος , Ion. and Ep.ξεινοδόκος , ὁ,
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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