=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. =Ægas=, a place of Eubœa.――――Another near Daunia in Italy. _Polybius_, bk. 3. =Ægātes=, a promontory of Æolia.――――Three islands opposite Carthage, called Aræ by _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 1, near which the Romans under Catulus, in the first Punic war, defeated the Carthaginian fleet under Hanno, 242 B.C. _Livy_, bk. 21, chs. 10 & 41; bk. 22, ch. 54.――_Mela_, bk. 2, ch. 7.――_Silius Italicus_, bk. 1, li. 61. =Ægēleon=, a town of Macedonia taken by king Attalus. _Livy_, bk. 31, ch. 46. =Ægēria.= _See:_ Egeria. =Ægesta=, the daughter of Hippotes, and mother of Ægestus, called Acestes. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 1, li. 554.――――An ancient town of Sicily near mount Eryx, destroyed by Agathocles. It was sometimes called Segesta and Acesta. _Diodorus_, bk. 10.