Xerxes II., succeeded his father Artaxerxes Longimanus on the throne of Persia, 425 B.C., and was assassinated in the first year of his reign by his brother Sogdianus.
Xerxes, a painter of Heraclea, who made a beautiful representation of Venus.
Xeuxes, an officer of Antiochus the Great king of Syria.
Xiline, a town of Colchis.
Xiphonia, a promontory of Sicily at the north of Syracuse, now Cruce. Strabo, bk. 6.——Also a town near it, now Augusta.
Xois, an island formed by the mouths of the Nile. Strabo, bk. 17.
Xuthia, the ancient name of the plains of Leontium in Sicily. Diodorus, bk. 5.
Xuthus, a son of Hellen, grandson of Deucalion. He was banished from Thessaly by his brothers, and came to Athens, where he married Creusa the daughter of king Erechtheus, by whom he had Achæus and Ion. He retired after the death of his father-in-law into Achaia, where he died. According to some, he had no children, but adopted Ion, the son whom Creusa, before her marriage, had borne to Apollo. Apollodorus, bk. 1, ch. 7.—Pausanias, bk. 7, ch. 1.—Euripides, Ion, bk. 1, scene 1.
Xychus, a Macedonian who told Philip of his cruelty when he had put his son Demetrius to death, at the instigation of Perseus.
Xylenopŏlis, a town at the mouth of the Indus, built by Alexander, supposed to be Laheri. Pliny, bk. 6, ch. 23.