slay guests, strangers
slay guests or strangers, Hdt. 2.115, E. Hec. 1247, D.S. 4.18.
The corpus record
ξενο-κτονέω
xenoktoneo
slay guests
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Where it lives
- Hecuba 1 · 1.4/10k
- Histories 1 · 0.05/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- ξενοκτονεῖν · xenoktonein Euripides, Hecuba (DIORISIS sentence 701)
- ξεινοκτονέειν · xeinoktoneein Herodotus, Histories 2.115.6 (DIORISIS sentence 2338)
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.