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Headword:
Ξένος
Adler number: xi,45
Translated headword: guest-friend
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Friend.
"Embassies used to come from the cities because they considered him their guest-friend and an adviser on their manner of life and the establishment of temples and images. He set each of these things to rights."[1]
And again: "[men] create guest-friends in their own countries."[2]
A xenos is also someone who receives strangers.[3] The Apostle [says]: "my friend the xenos greets you."[4]
Greek Original:Ξένος: ὁ φίλος. ἐφοίτων δὲ πρεσβεῖαι ἐκ τῶν πόλεων ξένον τε αὐτὸν ἡγούμενοι καὶ βίου σύμβουλον βωμῶν τε ἱδρύσεως καὶ ἀγαλμάτων. ὁ δὲ ἕκαστα τούτων διωρθοῦτο. καὶ αὖθις: ἐν ταῖς ἰδίαις πατρίσι ξένους ποιοῦνται. Ξένος καὶ ὁ ξενοδόχος. ὁ Ἀπόστολος: ἀσπάζεται ὑμᾶς ξένος ὁ φίλος μου.
Notes:
[1] An approximation of
Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of
Tyana 4.1.
[2] Quotation not identified by Adler, but identifiable via the TLG as
Hermippus ap.
Diogenes Laertius 1.102: an anecdote about
Anacharsis (
alpha 2130) arriving in
Athens in the early C6 BCE, requesting guest-friendship with
Solon, and -- at first -- getting the brush-off with this remark.
[3] cf. generally
xi 40,
xi 58.
[4]
Romans 16.23: "Gaius my
xenos greets you."
Translated by: James L. P. Butrica † on 17 February 2000@09:35:49.
Vetted by:Catharine Roth (supplied headword translation, note) on 1 June 2002@00:57:56.
Catharine Roth (modified translation) on 2 June 2002@00:01:13.
David Whitehead (supplied notes; added keyword; cosmetics) on 3 June 2002@04:05:07.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 4 October 2005@09:06:51.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics; raised status) on 29 August 2007@09:02:22.
David Whitehead (source identification) on 11 April 2011@05:17:25.
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