Passage 10.14.4
ἐπὶ τούτῳ μὲν ἐς τοὺς ἀρνουμένους στερεῶς λέγεσθαι καθέστηκεν ὡς ὁ δεῖνα ὅστις δὴ Τενεδίῳ πελέκει τόδε τι ἀποκόψειεν. Τέννην μὲν ὑπὸ Ἀχιλλέως ἀποθανεῖν ἀμύνοντα τῇ οἰκείᾳ φασὶν Ἕλληνες· Τενέδιοι δὲ ἀνὰ χρόνον ὑπὸ ἀσθενείας προσεχώρησαν τοῖς Ἀλεξάνδρειαν ἐν τῇ ἠπείρῳ τῇ Τρῳάδι ἔχουσιν.
Because of this, it became customary to make a strong reference against anyone who denied wrongdoing by saying that he would «cut it off with a Tenedian axe.» Now the Greeks relate that Tenes was killed by Achilles as he attempted to protect his homeland; but the people of Tenedos themselves, weakened over time, eventually merged with those who inhabited Alexandria on the mainland of the Troad.