Ξένος
guest-friend
Translated by James L. P. Butrica ✝17 Feb 2000Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] a friend.1
"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."2
And elsewhere: "[men] create guest-friends in their own countries."3
A xenos is also someone who receives strangers.4 The Apostle [says]: "my friend the xenos greets you."5
"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."2
And elsewhere: "[men] create guest-friends in their own countries."3
A xenos is also someone who receives strangers.4 The Apostle [says]: "my friend the xenos greets you."5
Greek original · Adler’s text
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.
Betacode
*ce/nos: o( fi/los. e)foi/twn de\ presbei=ai e)k tw=n po/lewn ce/non te au)to\n h(gou/menoi kai\ bi/ou su/mboulon bwmw=n te i(dru/sews kai\ a)galma/twn. o( de\ e(/kasta tou/twn diwrqou=to. kai\ au)=qis: e)n tai=s i)di/ais patri/si ce/nous poiou=ntai. *ce/nos kai\ o( cenodo/xos. o( *)apo/stolos: a)spa/zetai u(ma=s ce/nos o( fi/los mou.
Notes (5)
- 1The Greek vocabulary, hard to match in English, is xenos glossed with philos. ↩
- 2An approximation of Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 4.1. ↩
- 3Quotation 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. ↩
- 4cf. generally xi 40, xi 58. ↩
- 5Ep. Romans 16.23, which actually reads "Gaius my xenos greets you." ↩
Linked from3 entries
- ι114Ἰδιόξενοςprivate 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…
- ξ40Ξενοδοχεῖονguest-house, hotel, inn[Meaning] the [venue for] receiving strangers/guests. Also [sc. attested is] cenodo/xos ["one who receives strangers/guests"] [used] similarly.
- ξ59Ξεῖνοιguest-friends[A term for] friends from a foreign [country].
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Revision history7 revisions · last 19 Jun 2013
- another note; tweaking — David Whitehead
- source identification — David Whitehead
- augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics; raised status — David Whitehead
- another keyword — David Whitehead
- supplied notes; added keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- modified translation — Catharine Roth
- supplied headword translation, note — Catharine Roth
- Translated — James L. P. Butrica ✝