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XENNION (continued). 

 Santorini. Jablonsky, De Voc. Egypt., ap. Steph. Thes., suspects x^vtov 

 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)anser. x 7 ?" = X avs or X €VS ( c ^ pn v = A* f ^) ', 



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



(22) 27 ; also Venant. Fortunat., Miscell. vii. 4, 11, teste Keller) is 



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



The connexion with x a *- vai is doubtful (Curt.). An irreg. plur. in 



Gk. Anth. iv. 258 (A. P. vii. 546) w n^vas r)Kpo@6\i£e x*W. Dim. 



Xr\vdpiov, Hdn. Epim. 150 ; x^&eu's, Ael. vii. 47, Eust. 753. 56 ; 



XT]vioi>, Menipp. ap. Athen. 664 e; x^"™ ?* Eubul. 3. ail. 



In Horn, frequent ; usually with the epithet apyos : cf. x a P 07rov X^ ua i 

 Antip. Sid. lxxxviii, 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 e'xovai tl dia peaov to>v (rx L(T f JL< * Ta>v 

 tt68os. Ael. xi. 37 opvis areyaponovs kol ifkarvcovv^. Arist. H. A. ii. 17? 5°9 

 aropaxos evpvs Kai nXarvs, drrocpvddes SXiyai Karcodep Kara rrjv tov epTepov 

 TeXevrrjv, aldoLOv cpaveparepop OTCiv f] dx^ia Tvp6a<paros r], lb. vi. 2, 560 b 

 oxevdelaai KaraKoXvpftaxriv : ibid. 8, 564 at 6rp\eiai €7ra>d£ov(Ti povai, kol 81a- 

 pevovai did napros ecpedpevovaai, oTavnep ap^avrai tovto 7roie7p : ibid. 6, 563 

 «n»a£« nep\ TpiaKovff rjpepas: cf. Varro, De R. R. iii. 10, Colum. viii. 

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

 expressed by x r } v '^ €lv ^ Diphil. 4. 413, 7ranird£eip, J. Pollux, Lat. gingrire, 

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

 3. 260. 



Eggs. — Eriph. ap. Athen. ii. 58 b coot \evKa ye | kol p,eyd\a. B. xh V€i ' 

 eVriV, &s y epoi doKel' | ovtos 8e (prjai ravra rr)V Arj8av Texelp. (Cf. Sappho, 

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

 (I.e.) olov re xv v ° s "> €0V Maiavdplov. 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 oi de x^ ves diapei^opres top Tavpop to opos 

 dedoUaoi tovs derovs, Kai eKaaros ye clvt&v Xidop evdaKOPTes, Iva p.f) Kkd£co(riv, 

 faaTsep ovp e pfiaXouTes cr(pi<Ti. (rropiou, dianerovTai o*H£>na>PTes, Kai tovs 

 derovs ra noXXa TavTt) 8ia\av0dvovo-i. Cf. Dion. De Avib. ii. 1 8 ; 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) noXiov xw^ C € vy°s ewdpo- 



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