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Xeniteia
Greek term (ξενιτεία, "sojourn in a foreign land," hence "exile") indicating detachment from one's native land, and then the ascetic renunciation of one who… -
Xenophanes (SENOFANE)
SENOFANE: v. ELEATISMO. -
Xerophagia (Ξηροφαγία) (XEROFAGIA (ΞΗΡΟΦΑΓΊΑ))
A diet consisting solely of dry food (ξηρός) and water alone. It is a variety of fasting, according to St. Isidore (Etymol. VI, 19, 70, ed. W. M. Lindsay… -
Xerxes I (SERSE I)
King of the Achaemenid dynasty (v.), son of Darius I and father of Artaxerxes I. He reigned from 485 to 465 B.C., when he was killed in a conspiracy. In…