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ξένιος

xenios

belonging to friendship and hospitality, hospitable

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Where it lives

  • Suppliant Maidens 3 · 6.22/10k
  • Agamemnon 4 · 4.93/10k
  • Anabasis 15 · 2.67/10k
  • Osee 1 · 2.65/10k
  • Ways and Means 1 · 2.62/10k
  • Helen 2 · 2.04/10k
  • Machabaeourum III 1 · 1.99/10k
  • Odyssey 15 · 1.73/10k
  • De Mundo 1 · 1.58/10k
  • Electra 1 · 1.32/10k
  • Timaeus 3 · 1.27/10k
  • Regnorum II 2 · 1.24/10k

Densest 12 of 26 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

belonging to friendship and hospitality, hospitable, protector of the rights of hospitality, the guests’, guestʼs, bound, by ties of hospitality

belonging to friendship and hospitality, hospitable, Ζεὺς ξ. as protector of the rights of hospitality, Ζεὺς ἐπιτιμήτωρ ἱκετάων τε ξείνων τε, ξείνιος, ὃς ξείνοισιν ἅμʼ αἰδοίοισιν ὀπηδεῖ (cf. ξένος II) Od. 9.271; Ζηνὸς . . ἐδείσατε μῆνιν ξεινίου Il. 13.625, cf. A. Ag. 61, 362 (both anap.), al.; ὦ Ζεῦ ξένιε Cratin. 111; also Ἀπόλλων ξ. CIG 2214e (Chios) ; ξ. τράπεζα the guests’ table, Od. 14.158, 17.155, Pi. I. 2.39, etc.; ξ. κοίτα his guestʼs adultery, Id. P. 3.32 ; ξ. τινί bound to one by ties o

2 friendly gifts, as a friendly gift, to meat, provisions, tribute, honoraria

ξείνια, Att. ξένια (cf. ξεινήϊον), τά, friendly gifts, given to the guest by his host, esp. meat and drink, ξείνιά τʼ εὖ παρέθηκεν, ἅ τε ξείνοις θέμις ἐστίν Il. 11.779, cf. 18.387, Od. 5.91, etc.; εἴ μοι ξ. δοίη 9.229, cf. 19.185 (less freq. in sg., ἵνα τοι δῶ ξείνιον 9.356, cf. 20.296, Pi. P. 4.35, SIG 662.32 (Delos, ii B. C.)); ξένια . . παρέσχε δαῖτα as a friendly gift, A. Ag. 1590 ; βοῦν ξένια ἔπεμψαν X. HG 7.2.3, cf. PCair.Zen. 75.6 (iii B. C.) ; ξ. δοῦναι E. Cyc. 301 ; ξ. λήψῃ ib. 342 ; δέ

II foreign

foreign, ἐπὶ ξενίας (sc. γῆς) Antipho 2.2.9, Pl. Cra. 429e, cf. Ath.Mitt. 25.427 ; ἐν ξενίῃ Epigr.Gr. 1041.8.

2 with aliens

ξ. κόσμος, in Crete, magistrate who tried suits with aliens, GDI 4981.4, al.

In the wild

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Where it came from

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