. e borders of Locris. Aegium (AXyiov: Alyizvs : Vostitza), a townof Achaia, and the capital after the destructionof Helice. The meetings of the Achaean Leaguewere held at Aegium in a grove of Zeus calledHomarium. Aegle (A17A7;), that is Brightness or Splendour, is the name of several mytho-logical females, such as, 1. The daughter ofZeus and Neaera, the most beautiful of theNaiads ; she married Helios and became motherof the Charites ;—2. a sister of Phaeton ;— of the Hesperides ;—4. a nymph belovedby Theseus, for whom he forso
. e borders of Locris. Aegium (AXyiov: Alyizvs : Vostitza), a townof Achaia, and the capital after the destructionof Helice. The meetings of the Achaean Leaguewere held at Aegium in a grove of Zeus calledHomarium. Aegle (A17A7;), that is Brightness or Splendour, is the name of several mytho-logical females, such as, 1. The daughter ofZeus and Neaera, the most beautiful of theNaiads ; she married Helios and became motherof the Charites ;—2. a sister of Phaeton ;— of the Hesperides ;—4. a nymph belovedby Theseus, for whom he forsook Ariadne;— of the daughters of Aselepius. Aeglctes (AtyAriT7)s), that is, the radiant god,a surname of Apollo. Aegocerus (AlyoKepais), a surname of Pan,descriptive of his figure with the horns of a goat,but more commonly the name of one of thesigns of the Zodiac, Oapricomus. AegOS-Potami (Alybs irorafioi), in Latinwriters Aegos flumen, the goats-river, asmall river, with a town of the same name onit, in the Thracian Chersonesus, flows into the. Coin of , Demeter ; rev., goat. Hellespont. Here the Athenians were defeatedby Lysander, 405. Aegosthena (Aiy6<r8eva : Atyoadevevs, Alyo-aSeviT7}s), a town in Megaris on the borders ofBoeotia, with a sanctuary of Melampus. Aegus and Roscillus, two chiefs of the Allo-broges, who had served Caesar with fidelity inthe Gallic war, deserted to Pompey in Greece( 48). Aegasa. [Aegates.] Aegypsus or Aegysus, a town of Moesia onthe Danube. Aegyptus (AtyvirTos), son of Belus and An-chinoe or Anchiroe, and twin-brother of assigned Libya to Danaus, and Arabia toAegyptus, but the latter subdued the country ofthe Melampodes, which he called Aegypt afterhis own name. Aegyptus by his several wiveshad 50 sons, and his brother Danaus 50 daugh-ters (the Danaides). Danaus had reason to fearthe sons of his brother, and, having by advice ofAthene built the first fifty-oared ship, fled with AEGYPTUS 21 hi
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