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Xanthian   Listen
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Xanthian  adj.  Of or pertaining to Xanthus, an ancient town on Asia Minor; applied especially to certain marbles found near that place, and now in the British Museum.





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... Phoebus leaves the wintry plain, From Lycia and the Xanthian flood, retires To native Delos, and his sacred choirs; 185 Mingled in carols loud around his shrine, Cretans and Greeks, and painted Scythians join. Graceful on high the god o'er Cynthio glides, His wanton locks with pliant gold divides, With tender ...
— The Fourth Book of Virgil's Aeneid and the Ninth Book of Voltaire's Henriad • Virgil and Voltaire


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