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Xenia

Xenios and the feminine Xenia are epithets of Zeus and Athena, describing then as presiding over the laws of hospitality, and protecting strangers. (Lat. Hospitalis ; Description of Greece by Pausanias iii. 11, in fin.; Hom. Od. xiv. 389; Cic. ad Q. Frat. ii. 12.)

From Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
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