ξένος, ὁ,
Epic dialect and Ionic dialect ξεῖνος (also frequently in [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus, “N.” 7.61, +others] Refs 5th c.BC+], used by Trag. for the sake of meter even in trimeter, mostly in vocative, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 33, +others, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 798 codices, “El.” 247)] Refs 5th c.BC+], Aeolic dialect ξέννος [[Hdn.Gr. 2.302 ] Refs]; scanned ¯ ?~X and written ξεῖνος in [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 28.6, 30.17: _Aeolic dialect_ _superlative_ ξεννότατος Scholia 12th c.AD: Tzetzes, Joannes Grammaticus in “An. Ox.” 3.356.18 (sed see near the end)] Refs 3rd c.BC+].
__I guest-friend, applied to persons and states bound by a treaty or tie of hospitality, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.313, etc.; ξεῖνοι δὲ.. εὐχόμεθ᾽ εἶναι ἐκ πατέρων φιλότητος 15.196; ξ. πατρώϊός ἐσσι παλαιός 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.215; ξ. δ᾽ ἀλλήλων πατρώϊοι εὐχόμεθ᾽ εἶναι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.187; φησὶ δ᾽ Ὀδυσσῆος ξεῖνος πατρώϊος εἶναι 17.522; later frequently coupled with φίλος, Πλούταρχος ὁ τούτου ξένος καὶ φίλος 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.110, compare 18.46, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.1.5, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 19.19; βασιλέως πατρικὸς ξ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Meno” 78d. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__I.2 of parties giving or receiving hospitality, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.145, etc. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; mostly of the guest, opposed to the host, ξεινοδόκοι καὶ ξεῖνος [[[prev. work] 543 ] Refs], etc.; ἁ ξείνα the visitor, [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 2.154 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; of guests at a club, opposed to σύνδειπνοι, [[ “PTeb.” 118.4 (2nd c.BC)] Refs 2nd c.BC+]: less frequently of the host, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.532, 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 1.208, NT.Rom.16.23, etc.: with _dative_, ξεῖνός τινι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.20, 22, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.13, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.1.10, etc.; also ξ. τινός [prev. work] 2.4.15. ] NT+8th c.BC+]