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Oaxes

Ŏaxes or Ŏaxis, is, m., = Ὄαξις,
  • a river in Crete, now Axus: rapidum Cretae veniemus Oaxen, Verg. E. 1, 66.—Hence,
  • II Ŏaxis, ĭdis, f. adj., of or belonging to the Oaxes; poet. for Cretan: capiens tellurem Oaxida, Varr. Atacin. ap. Serv. Verg. E. 1, 66.

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