In
Greek mythology,
Oxylus was a one-eyed man from
Aetolia who met
Temenus, son of
Aristomaches, on a road. Temenus had been told by an
oracle to look out for a man with three eyes, and Oxylus, having one eye himself and riding a horse or mule with two more, matched that description. Oxylus then, as the
oracle, had recommended, accompanied Temenus and his brother,
Cresphontes, in their invasion of the
Peloponnesus. For his aid, Oxylus received
Elis, a fertile land, as his own.
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