ἀλλότριος

A. of or belonging to another, βίοτος, νηῦς, ἄχεα, Od. 1.160, 9.535, Il. 20.298; γυνή another man's wife, A. Ag. 448 (lyr.); ἀλλοτρίων χαρίσασθαι to be bountiful of what is another's, Od. 17.452; γναθμοῖσι γελοίων ἀλλοτρίοισιν with faces unlike their own, of a forced, unnatural laugh, ib.20.347; ἀ. ὄμμασιν εἷρπον by the help of another's eyes, S. OC 146(lyr.); οὐκ ἀ. ἄτην not inflicted by other hands, Id. Ant. 1259; but ἀ. φόνος murder of a stranger (cf. 11.1), Pl. Euthphr. 4b: prov., ἀ. ἀμᾶν θέρος reap where one has not sown, Ar. Eq. 392, cf. Hes. Th. 599; ἀλλοτριωτάτοις τοῖς σώμασιν χρῆσθαι deal with one's body as if it belonged to another, Th. 1.70; τὰ ἀλλότρια, contr. τἀλλότρια, what belongs to others, not one's own, τἀ. ἀποστερεῖν, δειπνεῖν, X. Ages. 4.1, Theopomp. Com.34.

II. opp. οἰκεῖος, foreign, strange,

1. of persons, ἀ. φώς stranger, Od. 18.219, cf. Ar. Ra. 481; almost = enemy, Il. 5.214, Od. 16.102; οὐδέ τις ἀλλοτρίων no stranger, Hdt. 3.155; εἴτε ἀ. εἴτε οἰκεῖος ὁ τεθνεώς Pl. Euthphr. 4b; ἀ. τῆς πόλεως Lys. 28.6; οὐδείς ἐστί μοι ἀ., ἂν ᾖ χρηστός Men. 602; ἀλλοτριώτερος τῶνπαίδων less near than thy children, Hdt. 3.119; ἀλλοτριώτερος, opp. οἰκειότερος, Arist. EN 1162a3: c. dat., ἀλλότριοι ὑμῖν ὄντες Isoc. 14.51.

b. hostile, unfavourably disposed, c. gen., ἀ. Ῥωμαίων Plb. 28.4.4; ‐ώτατος μοναρχίας D.S. 16.65; ἀλλότρια φρονῶν τοῦ βασιλέως Plb. 36.15.7, cf. OGI 90.19 (Rosetta).

c. disinclined, πρὸς τὰς κακοπαθείας Plb. 36.15.2.

2. of things, alien, strange, τροφή Pl. R. 491d (Comp.), etc.; εἴ τι πρότερον γέγονεν ἀ. estrangement, Decr. ap. D. 18.185; ἡ ἀ. alien country, enemy's country, Lys. 2.6, Isoc. 10.50, cf. Hdt. 8.73: c. gen., alien from, ἐπιτηδεύματα δημοκρατίας ἀ. Lys. 31.34; οὐδὲν ἀ. ποιῶν τοῦ τρόπου Decr. ap. D. 18.182.

b. Medic., abnormal, Sor. 2.5, Gal. 14.780; ἀ. σάρκες superfluous fat, Pl. R. 556d.

c. foreign to the purpose, λόγοι Arist. EE 1218b23: Comp., Id. EN 1159b24: Sup., Id. Cat. 15b29, cf. Polystr.p.17 W.

d. Astrol., = ἀπόστροφος, POxy. 464.16.

III. Adv. ἀλλοτρίως, διακεῖσθαι πρὸς ἀλλήλας to be unfavourably disposed towards . . , Lys. 33.1, cf.Isoc. 12.159; ἄ. ἔχειν πρός . . Id. 5.80: Comp. ‐ιώτερον less favourably, D. 18.9.

2. strangely, marvellously, Epigr.Gr. 989.2.

3. in a manner foreign to, c. gen., Pers.Stoic. 1.1co. [‐οτρ‐ only in Men. 557 s. v. l.]