Xenon
(Ξένων), historical.
1. A Theban, who was sent in command of a body of troops by the Peloponnesians to Sicily, B. C. 413. (Thuc. 7.19.)
2. An officer in the service of Antiochus the Great, who was sent, together with Theodotus, against Molon. They retired before Molon under the shelter of the towns. (Plb. 5.42, 43.)
3. Tyrant of Hermione. He voluntarily abdicated his tyranny, and joined the Achaean league. (Plb. 2.44.)
4. An Achaean, a native of Patrae. He is mentioned by Polybius as one of those who counselled the maintenance of neutrality between the Romans and Perseus (28.6). After the conclusion of the war with Perseus, when the Roman commissioners, Claudius and Domitius, in a meeting of the Achaean assembly denounced as partisans of Perseus all who had been generals of the Achaeans during the war, Xenon, who had filled that office, rose to repel the charge, and offered to stand his trial before either an Achaean or a Roman tribunal. He was doubtless one of the Achaeans who, upon this, were sent to Rome, professedly to take their trial, but who were detained in various Italian cities for several years. (Paus. 7.10.9, &c)
5. An Achaean, a native of Aegium, was twice despatched to Rome, in company with Telecles, on behalf of the Achaeans who were detained in Italy. (Plb. 32.7, 33.1.) It seems more likely that the same Xenon is referred to in both passages, than that Xenon of Patrae should be meant in the former. In the latter case Xenon of Patrae must of course have been a different person front the Xenon mentioned by Pausanias.
6. A native of Lepreum, mentioned by Pausanias (6.15.1). [C.P.M]
(Ξένων), literary.
1. Of Locri, a Pythagorean philosopher. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. i. p. 878.)
2. A comic poet of unknown time, only mentioned by Dicaearchus (Vit. Graec. p. 170. s. 25, Buttmann), who quotes two lines from him. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. p. 505; Meineke, Trag. Com. Graec. vol. i. p. 500, vol. iv. p. 596, Editio Minor, p. 1184.) [P.S]
a painter, of Sicyon, disciple of Neocles, is mentioned by Pliny, in his list of those painters who were non ignobiles quidem, in transcursu tamen dicendi (H. N. 35.11. s. 40.42). [P.S]
- Paus. 7.10.9
- a Leprean, Olympic victor: Paus. 6.15.1