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| Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities |
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Oaxus
(Oaxos), called Axus (Axos) by Herodotus. A town in the interior of Crete on the river Oaxes.
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| Greek & Roman Geography (ed. William Smith) |
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Axus
Axus (Axos: Axus), a city of Crete (Herod. iv. 154), which is identified
with Oaxos (Steph. B. s. v.), situated on a river (rapidum Cretae veniemus Oaxen,
Virg. Ecl. 166), which, according to Vibius Sequester (Flum. p. 15), gave its
name to Axus. According to the Cyrenaean traditions, the Theraean Battus, their
founder, was the son of a damsel named Phronimne, the daughter of Etearchus, king
of this city (Herod. l. c.). Mr. Pashley (Travels, vol. i. p. 143, foll.) discovered
the ancient city in the modern village of Axus, near Mt. Ida. The river of Axus
flows past the village. Remains belonging to the so-called Cyclopean or Pelasgiewalls
were found, and in the church a piece of white marble with a sepulchral inscription
in the ancient Doric Greek of the island. On another inscription was a decree
of a common assembly of the Cretans, an instance of the well known Syncretism,
as it was called. The coins of Axus present types of Zeus and Apollo, as might
be expected in a city situated on the slopes of Mt. Ida, and the foundation of
which was, by one of the legends, ascribed to a son of Apollo. The situation answers
to one of the etymologies of the name: it was called Axus because the place is
precipitous, that word being used by the Cretans in the same sense that the other
Greeks assigned to agmos, a crag. (Hoeck, Kreta, vol. i. p. 397.)
| This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited July 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks |
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Oaxus, Oaxos, Axus, Axos
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