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- Xenarchus,
- A comicall poete. Also a philosopher borne in Seleucia.
- Xeniae balniae,
- A certaine bathe.
- Xenius Iupiter,
- The god of hospitalitie.
- Xenocrates,
- A notable philosopher, Platoes scholler, and maister to Polemon. King Alexander on a tyme, as a bountifull prince, sent vnto him thirtie talents of golde as a present: but Xenocrates sent it backe agayne vnto him, saying, that kinges and princes haue néede of mo∣ney, and not philosophers.
- Xenodorus,
- A famous caruer or ymage maker.
- Xenophanes,
- A philosopher that wrote against Hesiodus and Homere, for their opinion concerning the gods.
- Xenophilus,
- A musitian of Chalcis, which liued .107. yea∣res in great felicitie and quietnesse.
- Xenophon,
- A philosopher of Athens, disciple of So∣crates, and was also a noble and politike capitayne, who for his most delectable stile in writing, was na∣med the muse of Athens. Hée made most•• excellent workes, replenished with such kinde of wisedome and doctrine, that to the instruction of a prince, none may be compared vnto him. Wherefore I woulde exhort all noble men to reade his workes studiously. I woulde god that he mought fynde a translatour eyther in La∣tine or Englishe, which coulde expresse sufficientlye the most delectable sentences contayned in Gréeke.
- Xenophontius, a, um,
- Of Xenophon.
- Xerxes,
- A great and famous emperour of Persia, sonne of Darius, in riches and power of men, farre passing all other, but in noble prowes and vertue much inferi∣our to his predecessors.
Fiue yeares continually he made prouision for a voy∣age into Gréece, to reuenge that great reproche and ouer throwe that his father, not many yeres before, had taken of Miltiades in the fieldes of Marathon. Where∣fore▪ hauing gathered togither an armie, as some write of seauentéene hundred thousande, or as other more credibly affirme, of .1000000. He conuayed it ouer in∣to Europe by making a bridge ouer the sea at Helle∣spont with his great multitude of shippes. Through this his huge and mighty power, hée bare himselfe so prowdely, that he did not onely thinke all men ought to obey him, but commaunded the seas also to be quiet, and mountaines to giue place vnto him. The multi∣tude of his armie and ••attayle dranke certaine ryuers drie, and at their Princes commaundement did cutte downe the mountayne Athos in Thrace, that they might that way haue passage. Notwithstanding, short∣ly after, this mighty Prince with all his power on the sea by the yle of Salamine ioyning battayle with the small nauie of the Grecians, was discomfited and put to flight, a great part of his armie destroyed, and him∣selfe for his safegarde with great feare glad to flie in a fisher boate vnknowne: and so with muche dishonour returned home into Persia. Where afterwarde, mis∣trusting the hasarde of warre, he gaue himselfe to deli∣tious and sensuall lyfe, proposing large rewardes to such as did deuise any newe fantasie of ryote to please his sensuall appetite. By which occasion be became in great contempt with his people, and was slayne by one Artabanus, when he had rayned eyght yeares.