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Xanthus

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Xan·thus  (znths)
An ancient city of Lycia in present-day southwest Turkey. It was besieged and taken by the Persians (c. 546 b.c.) and the Romans (c. 42 b.c.). Both times the residents destroyed the city before surrendering.


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He then gave chase to Xanthus and Thoon, the two sons of Phaenops, both of them very dear to him, for he was now worn out with age, and begat no more sons to inherit his possessions.
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He was owned by two masters in succession, both inhabitants of Samos, Xanthus and Jadmon, the latter of whom gave him his liberty as a reward for his learning and wit.
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Now Xanthus and Gorgus, son of Midas the king, heard his epics and invited him to compose a epitaph for the tomb of their father on which was a bronze figure of a maiden bewailing the death of Midas.
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