φιλόξενος

philoxenos

loving strangers, hospitable

Appears 6 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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De Virtutibus et Vitiis 2
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Chapter 6 1250b19–1251a18

1250b34
Chapter 8 1251b26–37

1251b35
Eudemian Ethics 1
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Book III 1
Chapter 2 1230a34–1231b4

1231a16
Oeconomica 1
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Book II 1
Chapter 2 1346a32–1353b27

1351b36
Poetics 1
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Chapter 2 1448a1–18

1448a15
Politics 1
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Book VIII 1
Chapter 7 1341b15–1342b34

1342b9

Dictionary (LSJ)

φιλόξενος, poet. φῐλό-ξεινος, ον:—A. loving strangers, hospitable, Od. 6.121, 8.576, al., Pi. O. 3.1, N. 1.20, X. HG 6.1.3, 1 Ep.Ti. 3.2, etc.; παθεῖν φιλόξενον ἔργον to meet with an act of hospitality, Pi. I. 2.24; τὸ εἶναι φ. Arist. VV 1250b34, cf. 1251b35; φιλόξενʼ ἐστὶν (sc. τὰ δώματα) Αἰγίσθου διαί A. Ch. 656: Sup. -ώτατος Id. Fr. 196, Cratin. 1.2; -έστατος E. Fr. 879. Adv. -νως Isoc. 4.41.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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