Wide-flowing river whose water Homer calls the fairest over the face of the earth — father of Pelegon (`pelegon-paeonian`) upon Periboea daughter of Acessamenus, and stream of the Paeonians who followed Pyraechmes and Asteropaeus to Troy.1
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Nestor's muster names Pyraechmes captain of the Paeonians from afar, out of Amydon from the wide-flowing Axius — Axius the water whereof floweth the fairest over the face of the earth.2
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When Achilles pressed Asteropaeus beside Scamander, the Paeonian vaunted his descent: he was begotten of wide-flowing Axius and Periboea, eldest of the daughters of Acessamenus, for with her lay the deep-eddying River.3
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