Xenien, the name, derived from Martial, of a series of stinging epigrams issued at one time by Goethe and Schiller, which created a great sensation and gave offence to many, causing “the solemn empire of dulness to quake from end to end.”
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Xebec * Xenocrates