Aedileship, cost of, [ii, 57-60].

[Aegina], an island in the Saronic Gulf, a dangerous rival to Athens, directly in front of Piraeus and only twelve miles away, [iii, 46]; unjustly appropriated by Athens (429), [iii, 46].

Aeginetans, the people of Aegina ([q.v.]).

Aelius; see [Tubero].

Aemilius; see [Paulus] and [Scaurus].

Aequians, a warlike mountain tribe on the upper Anio, warring against Rome (till 304), [i, 35].

Aesopus, Claudius, an intimate friend of Cicero, Rome's greatest tragic actor, [i, 114].

Africa, the province in which Carthage was, [i, 112] (Thapsus); [iii, 99] (Carthage).

Africanus; see [Scipio].

[Agamemnon], leader of the war against Troy; when detained at Aulis he sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia to save the expedition, [iii, 95]. For this he was slain on his return from Troy by his wife Clytaemnestra.