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 (http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/homer/iliad_title.htm), who has placed his translation into the public domain.)
The name Arisbe was perhaps suggested by the justly forgotten sentimental poet of "The House by the Side of the Road," who sang that Axylus "lived in a house by the side of the road and was a friend to man." By the 1890s America's greatest philosopher had no higher ambition.
Hounded out of his government job and his academic appointment, Charles Peirce was rich only in his knowledge and in his love for his ailing wife.
Axylus and Calesius of the strong city of Arisbe passed beneath the earth, slain by Diomed.
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