[Ægir], the god of the sea in the Norse mythology.
[Ægis] (lit. a goat's skin), the shield of Zeus, made of the hide of the goat [Amalthea] (q. v.), representing originally the storm-cloud in which the god invested himself when he was angry; it was also the attribute of Athena, bearing in her case the Gorgon's head.
[Ægis`thus]. See [Agamemnon].
[Æl`fric], a Saxon writer of the end of the 10th century known as the "Grammarian."
[Ælia`nus, Claudius], an Italian rhetorician who wrote in Greek, and whose extant works are valuable for the passages from prior authors which they have preserved for us.
[Æmi`lius Paulus], the Roman Consul who fell at Cannæ, 216 B.C.; also his son, surnamed Macedonicus, so called as having defeated Perseus at Pydna, in Macedonia.
[Æne`as], a Trojan, the hero of Virgil's "Æneid," who in his various wanderings after the fall of Troy settled in Italy, and became, tradition alleges, the forefather of the Julian Gens in Rome.
[Æneas Silvius]. See [Piccolomini].
[Æ`neid], an epic poem by Virgil, of which Æneas is the hero.
[Ænesidemus], a sceptical philosopher, born in Crete, who flourished shortly after Cicero, and summed up under ten arguments the contention against dogmatism in philosophy. See "Schwegler," translated by Dr. Hutchison Stirling.