Axylus

Axylus

Axylus is mentioned in Book VI of Homer's "Iliad".

:Diomedes, expert in war cries, killed Axylus, :son of Teuthranus, a rich man, from well-built Arisbe.:People really loved him, for he lived beside a road, :welcomed all passers-by into his home. :But not one of those men he'd entertained now stood :in front of him, protecting him from wretched death.:Diomedes took the lives of two men--Axylus,:and his attendant Calesius, his charioteer.:So both men went down into the underworld.

(This is from a [http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/homer/iliad_title.htm translation of the "Iliad" by Ian Johnston] , who has placed his translation into the public domain.)


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