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459: 38: 144:, 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 ἀγμός, a crag. 372: 396: 136:
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
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Battus, their founder, was the son of a damsel named Phronimne, the daughter of Etearchus, king of this city. The town must be quite ancient as its name appears in
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were found, and in the church a piece of white marble with a sepulchral inscription in the ancient
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Index

Oaxus
Axus (disambiguation)

Ancient Greek
polis
ancient Crete
Virgil
Vibius Sequester
Cyrenaean
Theraean
Mycenaean
Linear B
Astale
Axos
Mount Ida
Cyclopean walls
Doric Greek language
Zeus
Apollo
Stephanus of Byzantium



Richard Talbert
Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World
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