12.――――An attendant of Mithridates, who wrote a treatise on Helen, and a panegyric on his royal master. =Æstria=, an island in the Adriatic. _Mela_, bk. 2, ch. 7. =Æsŭla=, a town on a mountain between Tibur and Præneste. _Horace_, bk. 3, ode 29. =Æsyetes=, a man from whose tomb Polites spied what the Greeks did in their ships during the Trojan war. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 2, li. 793. =Æsymnētes=, a surname of Bacchus. _Pausanias_, bk. 7, ch. 21. =Æsymnus=, a person of Megara, who consulted Apollo to know the best method of governing his country. _Pausanias_, bk. 1, ch. 43. =Æthalia=, or =Ætheria=, now _Elba_, an island between Etruria and Corsica. _Pliny_, bk. 3, ch. 6; bk. 6, ch. 30. =Æthalĭdes=, a herald, son of Mercury, to whom it was granted to be amongst the dead and the living at stated times. _Apollonius_, _Argonautica_, bk. 1, li. 641. =Æthion=, a man slain at the nuptials of Andromeda. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 5, li. 146. =Æthiŏpia=, an extensive country of Africa, at the south of Egypt, divided into east and west by the ancients, the former division lying near Meroe, and the latter near the Mauri. The country, properly now called Abyssinia, as well as the inhabitants, were little known to the ancients, though Homer has styled them the justest of men and the favourites of the gods. _Diodorus_, bk. 4, says, that the Æthiopians were the first inhabitants of the earth. They were the first who worshipped the gods, for which, as some suppose, their country has never been invaded by a foreign enemy. The inhabitants are of a dark complexion. The country is inundated for five months every year, and their days and nights are almost of an equal length. The ancients have given the name of Æthiopia to every country whose inhabitants are of a black colour. _Lucan_, bk. 3, li. 253; bk. 9, li. 651.――_Juvenal_, satire 2, li. 23. ――_Virgil_, [_Eclogues_], poem 6, li. 68.――_Pliny_, bk. 6, ch. 29. ――_Pausanias_, bk. 1, ch. 33.――_Homer_, _Odyssey_, bk. 1, li. 22; _Iliad_, bk. 1, li. 423. =Æthlius=, son of Jupiter by Protogenia, was father of Endymion. _Apollodorus_, bk. 1, ch. 7. =Æthon=, a horse of the sun. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 2, fable 1. ――――A horse of Pallas, represented as shedding tears at the death of his master, by _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 11, li. 89.――――A horse of Hector. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 8, li. 185. =Æthra=, daughter of Pittheus king of Trœzene, had Theseus by Ægeus. _See:_ Ægeus. She was carried away by Castor and Pollux, when they recovered their sister Helen, whom Theseus had stolen, and intrusted to her care. _See:_ Helena. She went to Troy with Helen. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 3, li. 144.――_Pausanias_, bk. 2, ch. 31; bk. 5, ch. 19.――_Hyginus_, fables 37 & 79.――_Plutarch_, _Theseus_.――_Ovid_, _Heroides_, poem 10, li. 131.――――One of the Oceanides, wife to Atlas. She is more generally called Pleione.