Æetias, a patronymic given to Medea, as daughter of Æetes. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 7, li. 9.
Æga, an island of the Ægean sea, between Tenedos and Chios.
Ægēas, a town whose inhabitants are called Ægeates. See: [Ædessa].
Ægæ, a city of Macedonia, the same as Ædessa. Some writers make them different, but Justin proves this to be erroneous, bk. 7, ch. 1.—Pliny, bk. 4, ch. 10.——A town of Eubœa, whence Neptune is called Ægæus. Strabo, bk. 9.
Ægææ, a town and seaport of Cilicia. Lucan, bk. 3, li. 227.
Ægæon, one of Lycaon’s 50 sons. Apollodorus, bk. 3, ch. 8.——The son of Cœlus, or of Pontus and Terra, the same as Briareus. See: [Briareus]. It is supposed that he was a notorious pirate, chiefly residing at Æga, whence his name; and that the fable about his 100 hands arises from his having 100 men to manage his oars in his piratical excursions. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 10, li. 565.—Hesiod, Theogony, li. 149.—Homer, Iliad, bk. 10, li. 404.—Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 2, li. 10.
Ægæum mare, now Archipelago, part of the Mediterranean, dividing Greece from Asia Minor. It is full of islands, some of which are called Cyclades, others Sporades, &c. The word Ægæum is derived by some from Ægæ, a town of Eubœa; or from the number of islands which it contains, that appear above the sea, as αἰγες, goats; or from the promontory Æga, or from Ægea, a queen of the Amazons; or from Ægeus, who is supposed to have drowned himself there. Pliny, bk. 4, ch. 11.—Strabo, bk. 7.
Ægæus, a surname of Neptune, from Ægæ in Eubœa. Strabo, bk. 9.——A river of Corcyra.——A plain in Phocis.
Ægaleos, or Ægaleum, a mountain of Attica opposite Salamis, on which Xerxes sat during the engagement of his fleet with the Grecian ships in the adjacent sea. Herodotus, bk. 8, ch. 90.—Thucydides, bk. 2, ch. 19.
Ægan [Greek αἰγαν or αἰγαων], the Ægean sea. Statius, Thebiad, bk. 5, li. 56.