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[848] The Paionians are elsewhere described as spearmen and charioteers, i.e. heavy-armed soldiers, not archers (except 10.428). Herod. mentions the legend that they were of Trojan lineage Herod., v. 13 (vii. 20, 75). Asteropaios is not mentioned among their leaders, although, according to 21.156, he must, by a strict reckoning of days, have been in Ilios at the time which the Catalogue is made to suit. The praise given to the Axios (W. of the Strymon in Macedonia, now the Vistrizza) caused great difficulties, as it is and always was, apparently, a very dirty stream. The variants given above testify to the attempts to evade the difficulty by transferring the eulogy to ‘Aia,’ which was said to be the name of the main spring of the Axios, and to be clear and bright.

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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