ÆDILES, magistrates of ancient Rome who had charge of the public
buildings and public structures generally.


ÆE`TIS, king of Colchis and father of Medea.


ÆGE`AN SEA, the Archipelago.


ÆGEUS, the father of Theseus, who threw himself into the Ægean Sea,
so called after him, in the mistaken belief that his son, who had been to
slay the Minotaur, had been slain by him.


ÆGI`NA, an island 20 m. SW. of Athens, in a gulf of the same name.


ÆGIR, the god of the sea in the Norse mythology.


ÆGIS (lit. a goat's skin), the shield of Zeus, made of the hide of the
goat AMALTHEA (q. v.), representing originally the storm-cloud in which
the god invested himself when he was angry; it was also the attribute of
Athena, bearing in her case the Gorgon's head.


ÆGIS`THUS. See AGAMEMNON.