Axe

He who in anger used an axe against his own wife is a murderer.

Yes, with that same axe by which my father died.

Your wife welcomed you with no victor’s garlands or crowns, but with a two-edged sword, making you the mournful victim of Aigisthus, she got a treacherous bed-fellow.

and, 2d, all those commodities—as axes and hammers, for example—which can be used only by one person at a time without collision, may nevertheless be used by different persons at different times without collision.

Other things being equal, is not one single commodity, that can be used by a thousand men at once without collision, just as valuable, for all practical purposes, as a thousand other commodities, that can each be used only by one person at a time?

A thousand separate individuals, can as well afford to pay a thousand dollars, (one dollar each,) for the use of a single commodity, that can be used by them all at once without collision, as they can to pay a thousand dollars, (one dollar each,) for the use of a thousand different commodities, each of which can be used only by one person at a time.

The gods came bearing their axes;

With an axe slung upon his shoulder, a bow resembling a mass of lightning in his hands, and bearing the foremost arrow — like Hara who destroyed the three cities.