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Rh to another version (not Vergil's), he disappeared after the victory on the Numīcius, and was worshipped as the god Jupiter Indĭges. The Roman version, in its earliest forms, as we see it in Nævius and Ennius, brought Æneas almost into contact with the founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus being regarded as children of his daughter Ilia by the god Mars. In later times, to fill up duly the space between the Fall of Troy and the Founding of Rome, the line of Alban kings, descended from Silvius, his son by Lavinia, was inserted between him and Romulus.

(2) Æneas, named "the Tactician," a Greek military author, wrote about 350 a book on the Art of War, of which only a small part on siege-operations, usually entitled Poliorkētĭkŏn, is preserved; it is clear in exposition, and contains much valuable historical information.

Æŏlus. (1) Grandson of Deucăliōn, son of Hellēn by the nymph Orseïs, brother of Dorus and Xuthus; king of Magnesia in Thessaly, and mythic ancestor of the Æolian race, his sons being founders of the Æolian settlements spread all over Greece. By his wife Enărĕtē he has seven sons: Crētheus, founder of Iolcus, and father, by Tyro, of Æson (Jason’s father), of Phĕres (founder of Phĕræ in Thessaly, and father of Admētus and Lycurgus), and of Amythāon (father of Bias and Melampus); Sīsyphŭs, founder of Ephy̌ra (Corinth), father of Glaucus and grandfather of Bellĕrŏphōn; Athāmăs, king of Orchomenus, father of Phrixus and Hellē; Salmōneus, builder of Salmōnē in Elis, father of Tyro; Deïōn, king of Phocis, father of Actor, Phy̌lucus, and Cĕphălus; Magnēs, father of Dictys and Polydectes, who colonize the island of Serīphus (see ); Periēres, king of Messenia, father of Aphareus and Leucippus. Also five daughters: Canăcē, mother by Poseidon of Epopeus and Alōeus (see ); Alcyŏnē (see ); Peisĭdicē; Căly̌cē, mother of Endy̌mion; and Perimēdē.

(2) In Homer a son of Hippŏtēs, and a favourite of the gods, whom Zeus has appointed keeper of the winds. On his Æolian island, floating in the far west, its steep cliff encircled by a brazen wall, he lives in unbroken bliss with his wife and his six sons and six daughters, whom he has wedded to one another. He hospitably entertains Odysseus, gives him the unfavourable winds shut up in a leathern bag, and a kindly breeze to waft him on his voyage. But when the hero’s comrades open the bag, the winds break out and blow him back to the Æolian Isle; then Æolus drives him from his door as one hateful to the gods. In the later legend he dwells on one of the Æolian isles to the north of Sicily, Lĭpăra or Strongy̌le, where, throned on a mountain, he holds the winds imprisoned in the hollow of the same; yet he does not seem to have received real worship. He was, moreover, brought into genealogical connection with Æolus of Thessaly, whose son Mimas begets Hippotes, and he (by Melanippē) a second Æolus, king of Æolis in Ætolia; this Æolus gives his daughter Arnē, the beloved of Poseidōn, to a guest-friend from Metapontum in Lucania, where she has two sons by the god, the third Æolus and Bœōtus. These, adopted by the Metapontian, kill his wife Autŏly̌tē and run away, Bœōtus returning with Arnē to his grandfather, and Æolus settling in the isles named after him, and founding the city of Lipara.

 Æōra. Festival of the swing. See, 1.

 Æquĭtās. At Rome, the personification of equity or fairness, as opposed to the justice that decides by the letter of the law. She was represented as a stately virgin with her left hand open, and often with a pair of scales.

 Ærārii. By the constitution of Servius Tullius (see ), the Ærarii were citizens not settled on land of their own, and therefore not included in any one of the property-classes founded on landownership. The term was also applied to those standing outside of the tribal union, who were excluded from the right of voting and from military service, and were bound to pay a poll-tax in proportion to their means. Citizens in the classes and tribes could be expelled from their tribe by the censors in punishment for any fault, and placed among the Ærarii. But when the latter were likewise admitted into the tribes ( 308), being enrolled in the city tribes ( 304), which were on that account less esteemed than the country ones, a penal transfer to the Ærarii consisted in expulsion from one’s proper tribe and removal to one of the city tribes till at least the next census.

 Ærārium. The state-treasury of Rome, into which flowed the revenues ordinary and extraordinary, and out of which the needful expenses were defrayed. It was kept in the basement of the temple of Saturn,