=Ælurus= (_a cat_), a deity worshipped by the Egyptians; and after death embalmed and buried in the city of Bubastis. _Herodotus_, bk. 2, ch. 66, &c.――_Diodorus_, bk. 1.――_Cicero_, _de Natura Deorum_, bk. 1.――_Aulus Gellius_, bk. 20, ch. 7.――_Plutarch_, _Pyrrhus_. =Æmathion= and =Æmathia=. _See:_ Emathion. =Æmilia lex=, was enacted by the dictator Æmilius, A.U.C. 309. It ordained that the censorship, which was before quinquennial, should be limited to one year and a half. _Livy_, bk. 9, ch. 33.――――Another in the second consulship of Æmilius Mamercus, A.U.C. 391. It gave power to the eldest pretor to drive a nail in the capitol on the ides of September. _Livy_, bk. 7, ch. 3.――The driving of a nail was a superstitious ceremony, by which the Romans supposed that a pestilence could be stopped, or an impending calamity averted. =Æmiliānus C. Julius=, a native of Mauritania, proclaimed emperor after the death of Decius. He marched against Gallus and Valerian, but was informed that they had been murdered by their own troops. He soon after shared their fate.――――One of the thirty tyrants who rebelled in the reign of Gallienus. =Æmilius.= _See:_ Æmylius. =Æmnestus=, tyrant of Enna, was deposed by Dionysius the elder. _Diodorus_, bk. 14. =Æmon.= _See:_ Hæmon. =Æmŏna=, a large city of Asia. _Cicero_, _for Flaccus_. =Æmŏnia=, a country of Greece which received its name from Æmon, or Æmus, and was afterwards called Thessaly. Achilles is called _Æmonius_, as being born there. _Ovid_, _Tristia_, bk. 3, poem 11; bk. 4, poem 1.――_Horace_, bk. 1, ode 37. It was also called Pyrrha, from Pyrrha, Deucalion’s wife, who reigned there.――――The word has been indiscriminately applied to all Greece by some writers. _Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 7. =Æmŏnĭdes=, a priest of Apollo in Italy, killed by Æneas. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 10, li. 537. =Æmus=, an actor in Domitian’s reign. _Juvenal_, satire 6, li. 197. =Æmylia=, a noble family in Rome, descended from Mamercus son of Pythagoras, who, for his humanity, was called Αἱμυλος, _blandus_. ――――A vestal who rekindled the fire of Vesta, which was extinguished, by putting her veil over it. _Valerius Maximus_, bk. 1, ch. 1. ――_Dionysius of Halicarnassus_, bk. 2.――――The wife of Africanus the elder, famous for her behaviour to her husband, when suspected of infidelity. _Valerius Maximus_, bk. 6, ch. 7.――――Lepĭda, daughter of Lepidus, married Drusus the younger, whom she disgraced by her wantonness. She killed herself when accused of adultery with a slave. _Tacitus_, bk. 6, ch. 40.――――A part of Italy, called also Flaminia. _Martial_, bk. 6, ltr. 85.――――A public road leading from Placentia to Ariminum; called after the consul Æmylius, who is supposed to have made it. _Martial_, bk. 3, ltr. 4.