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 AEGDJIUH. CTF>Ylb}.>Ppnntl7 ■ moonUin, at the duUnm t( IT iOAt bom the (arOKr, an bodi nMntioned br X«fbn(ffeILT. 1. § 10), but Ih«Lr pailiDn ii ■MBiB. (DnhrcU, row tAnd^t («(«, toI. L ^Ut.H).; Leake, iforta, valll p. 431, seq.. Afcpi-™™™, p.STO, BR).; Vordiwtttih, Alifnt miiAaia,f.Ki,»>i[.;B6h]xjri.JUcitrcia Gto- j i ^ li pii i, p, 64; Prduncli, AaOwvnJi^lnteft, mLi. IL4C0, aeq.; UOIlsr, ^ranwticMvm Z,i6er, Benl 111;.) AEGnnUH (AtrlRw: fei. Aiyvub, Aeginl. aw: S^igii), a lain] of the Trmi^iel in Thewalj, B dcKribcd ij Liij ai a place of great atrenglli aul ■■rii iiiipngiiiUe(UT. zuu. IS). It ii facqaeul; UBiHDHi in ihe Bomau wan in Greece. It ni pm np lo plondcr b; L. Aemilins Paulas for haiigg itfiutd to opca its gates after the buttle of ^4bl It frai ben that Caeur in bia mvdl finm AfolkBia ribcted a jouctioii wilh Bomitina. It •ccqitd iht Htc i£ tba tooixra Slagii, a town at a dun diKUKa from the Penens. At thia pUce lake tnnd an iiueri|^cii, in which Acgininm i« ■hiIubL tu BtnatioD, lortiGed on two (idea bj penieuiiciilar rocks, accurda with lArfe account at if pK6iML (StaiL p. 3271 Li»- "»"- '5, urn. IS, xiit. 46, ih-. 27; Caea. B. C. iii. 73) Leake, Xtriiv% Grtea, toL L p. 4:11, aeq.) AEGIPLASCTDS. [Mbhakib.1 AEGISOESSA (Airifntwira), a dCy whidi BmdgCat (L 149) smmentn among the II citiea af AecJia; b, in the island of Lesbos. [G. L.] AEOISSUS or AEGYPSIIS (Alyioooi, Hierod. p. S3J ; AfTwm, Proixip, 4, 7 ; Afpjpena, Oi.), i km io Uoaia, near the moalh rf the Daaobe. It a Wiilimwl 1^ Orid aa baring beoi taken from tka kBg 1^ Thrace, at that time under the pro. MitB aBome, bj a lodden incnraian of the Getae, Bd reewaed bj Vllslltu, who waa in command of a Bmwi Kimj in that qnajter. Grid celebratea tha nJoDi' dii^jed by his trisid Vcalaiis apon the tamm. (Ep.exFonto,la.l3.iy.T.i1.) [H.W.] AEGITHALLCS (AiyttaUjK, Diod.; Alyl- h)«, ZoDBT. ; AlfU^'i PtoL) ft frvoonUiry aa tkt V. oait i/ Sidlf, near LilybMiuii, which was ■ajatil and brtifltd bf the Rmiaii conatd L. Junina tei^ the rust Punk War (b. c. 349), with t nv u> atqiport (he ouratiiau againal Lilftmeom, hi ■!> noorend bf the Carthaginian geocnJ Car- lk^ mi occapol with > itroag gairison. Diodoros Ub M it ma aDcd in hii time Aobuum, bat it AEGIUM. 3S 1 1> erldenllj ths aame with the AfylAifiiii tapa of Ptolomr, which he places betweoi Dreiommi and Lilfbaaim; and (a probahlj the htadlaod now called Capo 5. Teodora, which ia imiiKdiale]; opposts to the lalaod tt Bmrme. (Diod. udr. Eic H. p. SOi Zonal. riiL 10; PtoL iii. 4. J 4; Clnrer. SiaL P- 248.) [E. H. B.] AEGITIUM iUytrior), a town hi Aelolia Efic- tetns, en the bordera of Locrii, aituated in the midit of moontaina, abont SO Btadia from the aea. Hen Demoethenea wai defeated b; the AetoUaoa, a.o. 42G. Leake places it near Vanuiova, where bs fimnd tbe remaini of an ancient citj. (Thuc. iii. 97 ; Leile, N'otlAer* Greea, »ol. ii. p, 617.) AE'GIUM (Aryior, Jitynor, Alben. p. 606: Eth. Atrrifii, Aegienaii: VoMtitai), a town of Acbwa, and one cf ths IS Achaean dtiea, was ■itnated npcai the coast W. of the lirer Selhina, 30 stadia from Rbfpae, and 40 stadia from Helics. It stood between two promonlories in Iha coner of a bsy, which formed the best harbonr in Acbaia next to that of Patrsa. It ia said to have been formed ont of an tmioc of 7 or 8 yillagea. It ia mentioned in the Homeric catalognt ; and, after the deslmctjoa of the Deighboufing dty of Uelice bj an earth- quake, in B. 0. 373 [Heuck], it obt«ned the temtciy of the latter, and thua became the chief dtf of Acbaia. From thia time Aeginin was choBOi as the place of meeting for the Leagne, and it ntained thu distioctioD, on tike rerira] of ths LeagDe, till PhikipoeDieu carried a law that the meeting might be held in aDf of the towns of the oonfedemcy. - ' ■■ ~- » keepn; the their periodical meetings at A^iom, just aa the Amphictjons were pcrmitfcd to meet at Ther- mopjlae and Delphi, (Paus. rii. 34. % 4.) The meelinga were hdd in a grove near the sea, called Bomagj/riam nt Bonariun, aacred to Zeus Ho. magynns at Homariua ('O^uvT^cor, 'O/ui^or; in Btrab. pp. 38i, 3S7, 'Ofiifior ihoold be read in. stead of 'Apw^ioi' and ^Iripitr). Clws lo this grove wsfl a temple of Denielcr PandiMa. The words namagyrima, " Maemblj," and Horaarmm, " union," * have reference to those meetings, tbongb in later times the^ were explained aa indicating the spot where Agsmemnnn aseembled the Gredan chielaina befc™ the Trojan War. There were Bereral other lemplee and pubUc bnildings at A^om, of which an a ' '- ■ " (Horn. II. ii. ST4; Hemd,"L 145; Pol. i . 93; Stiab. ^ 337, 389, aeq.; Psn 23. 24; Liv. inviiL 30; P .., ., hich occnioee the lite of the andent Acgium, ig place of some importance. It derirea its name frran the gardena bj which it !■ auironnded (iran P6rra, Pomiwi, garden). It stands on a biD, terminating towards the sea m a cliff ahont 50 feet high. There is a rraiarkable opening in tho chff, IriguuQj perhaps irti£dal, wbidi l^ds Irom the >, MS Welckn, Epitdf