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	Xeno is one of the Ephebian [[Philosophers]] encountered by [[Brutha]] and the [[Omnia\|Omnians]] during the events of {{SG}}, he is ~~descirbed~~ as short and fat. Like his contemporaries, [[Ibid]], [[Didactylos]] and others, Xeno is an amalgam of Roundworld counterparts from ancient history - mainly Greek philosophers. He is one of a crowd that disputes in taverns and coins aphorisms, axioms and paradoxes for money. An example is the famous {{wp\|Liar Paradox\|Liar Paradox}}.		'''Xeno''' is one of the Ephebian [[Philosophers]] encountered by [[Brutha]] and the [[Omnia\|Omnians]] during the events of {{SG}}, he is described as short and fat. Like his contemporaries, [[Ibid]], [[Didactylos]] and others, Xeno is an amalgam of Roundworld counterparts from ancient history - mainly Greek philosophers. He is one of a crowd that disputes in taverns and coins aphorisms, axioms and paradoxes for money. An example is the famous {{wp\|Liar Paradox\|Liar Paradox}}.

	He is also encountered in {{P}} trying to prove the logical argument that an arrow should never hit a moving tortoise.		He is also encountered in {{P}} trying to prove the logical argument that an arrow should never hit a moving tortoise.

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	Xeno is one of the Ephebian [[Philosophers]] encountered by [[Brutha]] and the [[Omnia\|Omnians]] during the events of {{SG}}, he is descirbed as short and fat. Like his contemporaries, [[Ibid]], [[Didactylos]] and others, Xeno is an amalgam of Roundworld counterparts from ancient history - mainly Greek philosophers. He is one of a crowd that disputes in taverns and coins aphorisms, axioms and paradoxes for money. An example is the famous {{wp\|Liar Paradox\|Liar Paradox}}		Xeno is one of the Ephebian [[Philosophers]] encountered by [[Brutha]] and the [[Omnia\|Omnians]] during the events of {{SG}}, he is descirbed as short and fat. Like his contemporaries, [[Ibid]], [[Didactylos]] and others, Xeno is an amalgam of Roundworld counterparts from ancient history - mainly Greek philosophers. He is one of a crowd that disputes in taverns and coins aphorisms, axioms and paradoxes for money. An example is the famous {{wp\|Liar Paradox\|Liar Paradox}}.

	He is also ~~ecountered~~ in {{P}} trying to prove the logical argument that an arrow should never hit a moving tortoise.		He is also encountered in {{P}} trying to prove the logical argument that an arrow should never hit a moving tortoise.

	==Annotation==		==Annotation==

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Xeno is one of the Ephebian [[Philosophers]] encountered by [[Brutha]] and the [[Omnia|Omnians]] during the events of {{SG}}, he is descirbed as short and fat. Like his contemporaries, [[Ibid]], [[Didactylos]] and others, Xeno is an amalgam of Roundworld counterparts from ancient history - mainly Greek philosophers. He is one of a crowd that disputes in taverns and coins aphorisms, axioms and paradoxes for money. An example is the famous {{wp|Liar Paradox|Liar Paradox}}

He is also ecountered in {{P}} trying to prove the logical argument that an arrow should never hit a moving tortoise.

==Annotation==

His interest in paradox and name suggests that he's primarily modelled on {{wp|Zeno_of_Elea|Zeno}}. Not only that, but Xeno's premise that an arrow can never hit a moving tortoise is a parody of two of [[Roundworld]]'s Zeno's most famous paradoxes - ''Achilles and the Tortoise'' (which holds that "in a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead") and ''The arrow paradox'' ("if everything when it occupies an equal space is at rest, and if that which is in locomotion is always occupying such a space at any moment, the flying arrow is therefore motionless").

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