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Xantippus – Ximenes

Xantippus

a Lacedæmonian general; went to the support of the Carthaginians in 255 B. c.; and defeated the Romans under Regulus at Tunes (now Tunis). Notwithstanding his services, the Carthaginians ordered the captain in his ship to throw him into the sea.

Xenophon of Ephesus

called

Xenophon the Younger

a Greek writer who lived in the 2nd century of the Christian era. One work of his has been preserved, a story in five books, called "Ephesiaca; or The Loves of Abrocomas and Anthia."

Xeres

FRANCISCO (hārās), a Spanish historian, who lived in the 16th century, accompanying Pizarro, as his .

XERES secretary, to Peru, about 1530. Of that expedition he wrote a detailed history, entitled "A True Account of the Conquest of Peru" (1549), still considered of great value as a source of information.

Ximena

the site of a battle in southern Spain, between the Spanish army under the command of General Ballasteros, and the French corps commanded by General Regnier, Sept. 10, 1811. The Spaniards defeated their adversaries; the loss was great on both sides.

Ximenes

JACQUES (hē-ā'nas), a Spanish poet, living in the 16th century.

XIMENES DE CISNEROS He took part in the war of the Netherlands; wrote a poem, "The Invincible Knight, the Cid Ruy Diaz of Bivar" (1579) and left a collection of sonnets.