Godlike son of king Agasthenes, Augeias' son, and captain of the fourth Epeian company — ten swift ships from Elis — whom Pausanias says came home safe from Troy and named his son Amphimachus after the comrade who fell there.1
In the Catalogue, Polyxenus leads the remaining ten ships of the Epeians: godlike captain, son of Agasthenes whom Homer calls Augeias' son, when the host of Elis mustered forty vessels under four leaders beside Buprasium and the holy ground of Olympia's coast.2
Pausanias, reading Homer against the memory of Elis, says Polyxenus returned alive from Troy and begat a son Amphimachus — a name, he thinks, given in honour of the Amphimachus who did not come back.3
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