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Headword: Ξένιος
Adler number: xi,37
Translated headword: hospitable, Hospitable
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
One who guards hospitality.
Zeus is also called Xenios.[1]
Greek Original:
Ξένιος: ὁ τῆς ξενίας ἔφορος. λέγεται καὶ Ξένιος ὁ Ζεύς.
Notes:
Though Apollo Xenios is attested (on the island of Chios), this is, par excellence, the epithet of Zeus. See in brief W.Burkert, Greek Religion (Cambridge Mass. 1985) 130 ("Zeus has a special concern for the relations which bind strangers to one another: guests, suppliants, and those bound by oaths - Zeus, Xenios, Hikesios, and Horkios") and 248 ("Zeus guards the laws of hospitality in the domain of house and court, and over strangers and suppliants who have arrived in the protecting domain: Zeus Herkeios, Hikesios, Xenios").
See again xi 57 (and under mu 236, omicron 251).
[1] "Protector of the rights of hospitality" (LSJ s.v.).
Keywords: daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; religion
Translated by: Ross Scaife on 11 May 1999@13:26:03.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added note; cosmetics) on 10 July 2001@08:52:40.
David Whitehead on 10 July 2001@08:53:54.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics; raised status) on 28 August 2007@09:58:49.

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