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 translation of the Iliad by Ian Johnston, who has placed his translation into the public domain.)

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