XEAIAflN XHN 193 



XENNION (continued}. 



Santorini. Jablonsky, De Voc. Egypt., ap. Steph. Thes., suspects xeWtoi/ 

 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. (fi)anser. x^ v = X avs or X VS ( c ^ M v = PW) ; 

 Ger. Gans. Lat. ganta (the small wild northern species, Plin. x. 

 (22) 27 ; also Venant. Fortunat, Miscell. vii. 4, n, teste Keller) is 

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

 The connexion with x^ is doubtful (Curt.). An irreg. plur. in 



Gk. Anth. iv. 258 (A. P. vii. 546) w irrrjvas r)Kpo@6\ie x>ay. Dim. 



\-qvdpiov, Hdn. Epim. 150 ; x^l^ 6 "?, Ael. vii. 47, Eust. 753. 56 ; 

 \t\viov, Menipp. ap. Athen. 664 e; x^" ?, Eubul. 3. 211. 

 In Horn, frequent ; usually with the epithet apyos : cf. x a P 07rov X ava ) 

 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, teste Keller, Th. d. cl. Alt., p. 288). 

 Description. Arist. H. A. ii. I, 499 t^ouo-i n 8ia pecrov T>V o-^ifr/Liarcoz/ 

 . Ael. xi. 37 opvis o-reyavoTrovs KOL 7rAarua>ia>. Arist. H. A. ii. 17, 509 

 evpiis KOI TrXarus, drrcxpuaSes' oXiyai Karoo$ez> Kara rrjv TOV evrepov 

 rjv, aldoiov (pavep&Tepoj/ orav TJ o^eia Trpo&cpaTOS TJ. Ib. vi. 2, 560 b 

 rat KaraKoXvp^oixnv : ibid. 8, 564 ai 6r)\iai eVoaa^bua-i povai, KOI dia- 

 8ia TTdvrbs efpfftpcvovorai, oravnep Spfanrrcu TOVTO iroiflv I ibid. 6, 563 

 Trept rpiaKoj/^' f]fj.epas: cf. Varro, De R. R. iii. 10, Colum. viii. 

 7, I. Their splay feet alluded to, Ar. Av. 1145. The goose's cackle is 

 expressed by xyvifav, Diphil. 4. 413, na'mra&iv, J. Pollux, Lat. gingrire, 

 Festus ; its splashing movements in the water by TtXaTvyifav, Eubul. 

 3. 260. 



Eggs. Eriph. ap. Athen. ii. 58 b <aa \evKa ye | KOI /neyaXa. B. Xn vet> 

 earivj &>s y JJLO\ 8oKel' OVTOS 8e (prjai ravra rr]V Arfiav reKelv. (Cf. Sappho, 

 fr. 566, ap. Athen. 1. c., Clem. Alex. Homil. v. 14.) Simon, fr. n B 

 (I.e.) diov re XTJI/OS weoi/ Maiavdpiov. 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 01 de x*l vfs 8iafJ.ei^ovT(s TOV Tavpov TO opos 

 dedoLKaai TOVS derouy, KCU eK.ao~TOS yf ai/Twv \iOov eVSaKovres 1 , tva p.r) KXafacriv, 



&(T7Tfp OVV p.jBa\6vT($ CrfplCTl (TTO/JLLOV, dldTTeTOVTCll (rKOTTWVTfS, Kal TOVS 



afToits TO. TroXXa ravrj] SiaXavQdvovai. Cf. Dion. De Avib. ii. 1 8 ; Pint. 

 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) TroXiov x^ v ^ v &vyos ewdpo- 



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