Wyttenbach
DANIEL (vit'ten- Aug. 7, 1746; studied at Marburg, Götof Greek at the Remonstrant Gymtingen, and Leyden; became Professor nasium at Amsterdam in 1771, of Philosophy at the Athenæum in 1779, and succeeded in 1799 to Ruhnken's chair of rhetoric at the university.
His greatest als," with rich annotations and an adwork is the edition of Plutarch's " Mormirable "Greek Index to Plutarch's Works" (Oxf. 8 vols. 1795-1380). He retired in 1816, and died after some years years of blindness in Osgeest, Jan. 17, niece of Hanau, whom he married at 72, His wife, Johanna Gallien, a She lived after her husband's death at was a remarkably accomplished woman.
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Vol. X X, x, the 24th letter of the English alphabet. It is superfluous, as it represents no sound which cannot be expressed by other letters. Thus, when used at the beginning of a word it has precisely the sound of z; when occurring in the middle of a word it usually has the sound of ks, as in axis, taxes, forces, etc.; it also has the same sound in some cases when terminating a word, as lax, wax, etc.; when it terminates a syllable, and more especially an initial syllable, if the syllable following it is open or accented, it frequently has the sound of gz, as in luxury, exhaust, exalt, exotic, initial it occurs only in etc... As an words of Greek origin, or formed from Greek words, most of these formations being of a scientific or technical nature.
X as a symbol is used in numeration:
For 10, in this case being composed of two Vs (5) placed one above the other, the lower one being inverted. When placed horizontally it stands for 1,000 and with a dash over it, it represents 10,000.
In ordinary writing X is frequently used as an abbreviation for Christ. In this case the symbol is not the same letter as the English X, but represents the Greek X (Ch), as in Xn=Christian, Xmas Christmas.
ΧΑΝΤΙΡΡΕ, wife of Socrates, and the typical female termagant or scold.
Most of the stories about her are probably false; for in ancient Athens gossip was cultivated to the perfection of a fine art, and the point and not the truth of the story was the chief consideration.
Xantippe had probably some little acerbities of temper, and these must have been heightened by the peculiarities of her spouse, especially his indifference to the commonplace duty laid on the head of the house to make both ends meet.
Socrates received her reproaches with such good-humored indifference that we cannot wonder she sometimes resorted to other weapons besides her tongue; as on the occasion when she is said to have finished up a tirade by sousing the phi losopher, though his remark, as he moved dripping from the scene, that when Xantippe thundered she watered, must have convinced her that here, too, she was powerless. Some authors have given Socrates a second wife, named Myrto, but the story is undoubtedly false.