ξένʼ (xen)

ξένʼ is an Ancient Greek form of ξένος, meaning “guest-friend, host; stranger, foreigner”. It is the vocative singular masculine adjective.

Found 52 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 4.6.29: … Ἀνδρομέδας Εὐριπίδου προενεγκάμενος· ὦ παρθένʼ, εἰ σώσαιμί σʼ, εἴσει μοι χάριν; καὶ ὃς τὰ ἐχόμενα· ἄγου μʼ, ὦ ξένʼ, εἴτε δμωΐδʼ ἐθέλεις εἴτʼ ἄλοχον.

Euripides, Cyclops 102: χαῖρ’, ὦ ξέν’, ὅστις δ’ εἶ φράσον πάτραν τε σήν.

Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 955: ξεν ἀδόλως δόλοις

All forms of ξένος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.