ι114Ἰδιόξενος
private guest-friend
[Meaning] one who is a guest-friend by himself in private. But a proxenos is one newly arrived from a foreign city, to whom the ambassadors are conducted. And this man introduces the embassies to the public officials…
Ἰδιόξενος· ὁ ἰδίᾳ καθ' ἑαυτὸν ξένος ὤν· πρόξενος δὲ ὁ νέηλυς πόλεως ξένης, παρ' ᾧ καὶ οἱ πρέσβεις κατάγονται· καὶ προσάγει τὰς πρεσβείας οὗτος πρὸς τὸ δημόσιον καὶ τὰ ἄλλα διοικεῖ…