Crossword-Solution: AXIOS 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Then sailing from Aineia, with which name I brought to an end the list of the cities, at once the fleet came into the Thermaïc gulf and to the region of Mygdonia, and so it arrived at the aforesaid Therma and at the cities of Sindos and Chalestra upon the river Axios.

GIBERNE SIEVEKING _outos ge axios estin epainesthai ostis an tois hetairois os teleion ti on protithae to eu neoterizein taen ton pollon katastasin_ THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO MY MOTHER CONTENTS TO THE READER WHO UNDERSTANDS.

The name of Axios which it sometimes bears appears to have been given to it by Greek colonists, in memory of a river in Macedonia.

This is probably the origin of the modern name of Asi, and the meaning, _rebellious river_, which Arab tradition attaches to the latter term, probably comes from a popular etymology which likened Axios to Asi, the identification was all the easier since it justifies the epithet by the violence of its current.

Dardanians were to be encountered in the neighbourhood of Mount Ida, as well as on the banks of the Axios, from early times, and the Kebrenes of Macedonia had colonised a district of the Troad near Ilion, while the great nation of the Mysians had issued, like them, from the European populations of the Hebrus and the Strymon.