Adultery of wife thought to spoil the luck of her absent husband, i. 123, 124 _sq._, 128; supposed to blight the fruits of the earth, ii. 107 _sq._, 114 Aeacus, the son of Zeus by Aegina, ii. 278, 359 _n._ 1; king of Aegina, the dispersal of his descendants, ii. 278; obtains rain from his father Zeus, ii. 359 Aedepsus, hot springs of Hercules at, v. 211 _sq._ Aedesius, Sextilius Agesilaus, dedicates altar to Attis, v. 275 _n._ 1 Aegina, daughter of Asopus and mother of Aeacus, ii. 359 _n._ 8 ——, island, Panhellenian Zeus worshipped on the peak of, ii. 359 Aegipan and Hermes, v. 157 Aegira in Achaia, inspired priestess of Earth at, i. 381 _sq._ _Aegis_, Athena and the, viii. 40, 41 Aegisthus, the murder of, i. 12 _n._; at Mycenae, his marriage with the widow of his predecessor, ii. 281 —— and Agamemnon, ix. 19 Aegosthena, annual kingship at, i. 46 Aelian, on impregnation of Judean maid by serpent, v. 81; on a Babylonian king Gilgamus, ix. 372 _n._ 1 Aelst, Peter van, painter, xi. 36 _Aenach_, Irish fair, iv. 100 _n._ 1 Aeneas and the Golden Bough, i. 11, ii. 379, xi. 285, 293 _sq._; his vision of the glories of Rome, ii. 178; his disappearance in a thunderstorm, ii. 181; worshipped after death as Jupiter Indiges, ii. 181; and the Game of Troy, iv. 76 —— and Dido, iii. 312, 313, v. 114 _n._ 1 Aeolus, King of the Winds, i. 326 Aeschines, spurious epistles of, ii. 162 _n._ 2 Aeschylus, on Typhon, v. 156 Aesculapius brings Hippolytus or Virbius to life, i. 20, iv. 214; horses dedicated by Hippolytus to, i. 21 _n._ 2, viii. 41 _n._ 5; at Cos, ii. 10; in relation to serpents, v. 80 _sq._; reputed father of Aratus, v. 80 _sq._; his shrines at Sicyon and Titane, v. 81; his dispute with Hercules, v. 209 _sq._; said to have raised Hippolytus from the dead, viii. 41 _n._ 5; at Pergamus, viii. 85; at Epidaurus, ix. 47 Aeson and Medea, v. 181 _n._ 1, viii. 143 _Aetna_, Latin poem, v. 221 _n._ 4 Aetolians, the, shod only on one foot, iii. 311 Afars. _See_ Danakils Afghanistan, ceremony at the reception of strangers in, iii. 108