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Often appears with: slaughter of fleeing troops · single combat · river-god intervention · plague, famine, and mass death · divine rebuke · battle and tactics
Usually: narrative (1) · detachment (1) · indignation (1)
In single combat by Scamander, Achilles kills Asteropaeus, then slaughters fleeing Paeonians along the riverbank until the river-god Scamander rebukes him and asks to stop killing in the water.
of the river Axius—of Axius that is the fairest of all rivers that run. He begot the famed warrior Pelegon, whose son men call me. Let us now fight, Achilles.” Thus did he defy him, and Achilles raised his spear of Pelian ash. Asteropaeus failed with both his spears, for he could use both hands alike; with the one spear he struck Achilles’ shield, but did not pierce it, for the layer of gold, gift …