AJAX,
the Locrian, the Son of Oileus, so named from the City and Country of Locris, near Mount Parnassus. He signaliz'd himself at the Siege of Troy by many notable Exploits. After the taking of the City, he pluck'd Cassan∣dra, the Daughter of King Priam, from the Altar of Minerva, to which she was fled as an Asylum. Some say, he ravish'd her, and that Minerva, being provok'd, reveng'd the Fact by slaying him with a Thunderbolt, which sir'd his Ship, and so drowned him in the Sea. But Philostratus says the contrary, that Ajax offer'd no Force to Cassandra, but that Agamem∣non took her away from him, having seen her in his Tent, and to avoid the Mischief he might design against him, fled by Sea in the night, and suffer'd Shipwrack by a Tempest that overtook him. The Greeks much lamen∣ted him, and made an extraordinary Funeral for him, for they fill'd a Ship with Wood, as if they would make a Funeral-Pile for him, slew several black Beasts in honour of him, and having also set up black Sails in the Ship, they set it on fire about break of day, and left it to run into the Main Sea all in a flame, till it was consum'd to Ashes.