16, &c.――_Sophocles_, _Electra_.――_Aeschylus_ & _Seneca_, _Agamemnon_.――_Homer_, _Odyssey_, bks. 3 & 11.――_Lactantius [Placidus]_ on [Statius’] _Thebaid_, bk. 1, li. 684.――――Pompey used to call Julius Cæsar, Ægisthus, on account of his adultery with his wife Mutia, whom he repudiated after she had borne him three children. _Suetonius_, _Julius Cæsar_, ch. 50. =Ægĭtum=, a town of Æolia, on a mountain eight miles from the sea. _Thucydides_. Bk. 3, ch. 97. =Ægium=, a town on the Corinthian isthmus, where Jupiter was said to have been fed by a goat, whence the name. _Strabo_, bk. 8.――_Livy_, bk. 28, ch. 7. =Ægle=, the youngest daughter of Æsculapius and Lampetie.――――A nymph, daughter of Sol and Neæra. _Virgil_, _Eclogues_, poem 6, li. 20.――――A nymph, daughter of Panopeus, beloved by Theseus after he had left Ariadne. _Plutarch_, _Theseus_.――――One of the Hesperides. ――――One of the Graces.――――A prostitute. _Martial_, bk. 1, ltr. 95. =Ægles=, a Samian wrestler, born dumb. Seeing some unlawful measures pursued in a contest, he broke the string which held his tongue, through the desire of speaking, and ever after spoke with ease. _Valerius Maximus_, bk. 1, ch. 8. =Æglētes=, a surname of Apollo. =Æglŏge=, a nurse of Nero. _Suetonius_, _Nero_, ch. 50. =Ægobolus=, a surname of Bacchus at Potnia, in Bœotia. =Ægocĕros=, or =Capricornus=, an animal into which Pan transformed himself when flying before Typhon in the war with the giants. Jupiter made him a constellation. _Lucretius_, bk. 1, li. 613. =Ægon=, a shepherd. _Virgil_, _Eclogues_.――_Theocritus_, _Idylls_. ――――A promontory of Lemnos.――――A name of the Ægean sea. _Flaccus_, bk. 1, li. 628.――――A boxer of Zacynthus, who dragged a large bull by the heel from a mountain into the city. _Theocritus_, _Idylls_, poem 4. =Ægospotămos=, i.e. _the goat’s river_, a town in the Thracian Chersonesus, with a river of the same name, where the Athenian fleet, consisting of 180 ships, was defeated by Lysander, on the 13th Dec., B.C. 405, in the last year of the Peloponnesian war. _Mela_, bk. 2, ch. 2.――_Pliny_, bk. 2, ch. 58.――_Pausanias_, bk. 3, chs. 8 & 11. =Ægosāgæ=, an Asiatic nation under Attalus, with whom he conquered Asia, and to whom he gave a settlement near the Hellespont. _Polybius_, bk. 5. =Ægus= and =Roscillus=, two brothers amongst the Allobroges, who deserted from Cæsar to Pompey. _Cæsar_, _Civil War_, bk. 3, ch. 59. =Ægūsa=, the middle island of the Ægates, near Sicily. =Ægy=, a town near Sparta, destroyed because its inhabitants were suspected by the Spartans of favouring the Arcadians. _Pausanias_, bk. 3, ch. 2. =Ægypānes=, a nation in the middle of Africa, whose body is human above the waist, and that of a goat below. _Mela_, bk. 1, chs. 4 & 8. =Ægypsus=, a town of the Getæ, near the Danube. _Ovid_, _ex Ponto_, bk. 1, ltr. 8; bk. 4, ltr. 7. =Ægypta=, a freedman of Cicero. _Letters to Atticus_, bk. 8.