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XENNION (continued). 

 Santorini. Jablonsky, DeVoc. Egypt., ap. Steph. Thes., suspects ;\;eVi'ioi' 

 to have been a locust, Eg. sche. See also Hercher in Jahn's Annal. 

 1856, Suppl. i. p. 285. 



XH'N. A Goose. 



Sk. hansa, hamsa, L. {h)aiiser. x*?" = X""^ oi" X^"* (cf. mV" = M^s) ', 



Ger. G^a«.r. Lat. ga7ita (the small wild northern species, Plin. x. 



(22) 27 ; also Venant. Fortunat, Miscall, vii. 4, 11, /^j/^? Keller) is 



a borrowed word ; cf. O. H. G. gaiizo (Keller), Engl, gannet. 



The connexion with xa'"*" is doubtful (Curt.). An irreg. plur. in 



Gk. Anth. iv. 258 (A. P. vii. 546) « nTrjvas fjKpoj36Xi^€ x^"'^^- Dim. 



Xiii'apiot', Hdn. Epim. 150 ; x^'''-S«"'s, Ael. vii. 47, Eust. 753. 56 ; 



XTji'ioj', Menipp. ap. Athen. 664 e; xT'^'o''<05j Eubul. 3. 211. 



In Hom. frequent ; usually with the epithet npyos : cf. xapoTroj/ x^'^^j 



Antip. Sid. Ixxxviii, Gk. Anth. ii. 31. The Geese in the Odyssey are 



tame birds, Od. xv. 161, 174, xix. 536, in the Iliad always wild, II. ii. 460, 



XV. 690. Remains of the bird are not known from ancient Troy or 



Mycenae (Schliemann and Virchow, /este Keller, Th.d. cl. Alt., p. 288). 



Description. — Arist. H. A. ii. I, 499 exovai tl bin fxeaov rau axKTfJ-aTmu 



TToSof. Ael. xi. 27 opvis areyauoTTOvs Kal TrXaricoi/u^. Arist. H. A. ii. 1 7, 509 



(TTopinxos evpiis /cat nXarvs, u7TO(j)vd8es oXiyai Karadep Kara ti]v tov evrepov 



reXevTTji', aldaiiov (pavepoirepov orav fj nxeia Trp6cr(})aTOs ^. lb. vi. 2, 560 b 



oxevOelaai KaTciKoXvp^oocriv : ibid. 8, 564 a'l 6i]\fLai encpd^ovai povai, kol bia- 



fxivovcn 8ia iravros etpebpevovaai, oravnep ap^avrai tovto TTOielv : ibid. 6, 563 



eVwd^ft TT€p\ TpiciKovB' Tjiifpas'. cf. Varro, De R. R. iii. 10, Colum. viii. 



7, I. Their splay feet alluded to, Ar. Av. 1 145. The goose's cackle is 



expressed by x^^'-C^'-v, Diphil. 4. 413, ira-nndCiiv, J. Pollux, Lat. gingrire, 



Festus ; its splashing movements in t^ie water by nXaTvyi^eiv, Eubul. 



3. 260. 



Eggs. — Eriph. ap. Athen. ii. 58 b aa \evKd ye \ kol peydXa. B. X'F^'-' 

 eoTiV, coy y fpo\ toKel' \ ovroi be (prjai raira ri)v Aijbav reKelv. (Cf. Sappho, 

 fr. 56 B, ap. Athen. 1. c, Clem. Alex. Homil. v. 14.) Simon, fr. 11 B 

 (1. c.) oioj' Te x^l^os aeov Maiavbpiov. Were not eaten by the Indians, 

 Ael. xiv. 13. The Fable of the Golden Egg, Aesop, ed. Halm 343 b; 

 cf. Keller, Gesch. d. Gr. Fab. p. 346 et seq. 



Migrations. — Ael. v. 54 "' ^^ X'^"^^ biauei^ovres tou Tavpov to opos 

 bebaiKaai roiis derovs, koi eKaaros ye avrcou Xi6ov efbciKovres, iva prj KXd^coaiv, 

 axnrep ovv ep^aXovres (r(f)i(Ti aropiov, BiaireTOVTai (TiwTToivTei, Kai rovs 

 derovs to. noXXa TavTrj 8iaXapddvovai. Cf. Dion. De Avib. ii. 18 ; Plut. 

 De Soil. Anim. p. 967 B ; Phile, De An. Pr. xv. 



Sacred to Osiris and Isis, Pausan. x. 32, 16; cf. Juv. vi. 540; see 

 also Philip. Thess. 10 (Gk. Anthol. ii. 197) ttoXiov xi^^v C^iyos e'wbpo- 



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