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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