Axius, a river of Macedonia. Herodotus, bk. 7, ch. 123.
Axona, a river of Belgic Gaul, which falls into the Seine below Paris. The inhabitants of the neighbourhood were called Axones.
Axur and Anxur, a surname of Jupiter, who had a temple at Trachis in Thessaly. He was represented as a beardless youth.
Axus, a town about the middle of Crete. Apollodus.
Azan, a mountain of Arcadia, sacred to Cybele.——A son of Arcas king of Arcadia by Erato, one of the Dryades. He divided his father’s kingdom with his brothers Aphidas and Elatus, and called his share Azania. There was in Azania a fountain called Clitorius, whose waters gave a dislike for wine to those who drank them. Vitruvius, bk. 8, ch. 3.—Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 15, li. 322.—Pausanias, bk. 8, ch. 4.
Azīris, a place of Libya, surrounded on both sides by delightful hills covered with trees, and watered by a river where Battus built a town. Herodotus, bk. 4, ch. 157.
Azonax, a man who taught Zoroaster the art of magic. Pliny, bk. 30.
Azorus, one of the Argonauts.
Azōtus, now Asdod, a large town of Syria on the borders of the Mediterranean. Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, bk. 15.