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This government only laded till the eflablirtiment of the 

 Romaiu in Gaul. The ALdui then occupied the countries 

 comprehended in the dioceLs of Autuu, Chalons, Macon, 

 and part of that of Dijon. Their alhci and their tubjec.ls 

 comprehended the rtil of La 15ourgogne, La Brcfic, Le 

 Lyonnois, Le Bcaujolois, Le Forez, Le Bourbonnois, and 

 Le Nivernois. 



.^DUSII, allies of the Romans, bordering upon Celtic 

 Gaul. 



jEGA, in /Incient Geo^rnphy, a river of Phocis : — a town 

 of TEnionia ; — an iiland between Teiiedos and Chios : — and 

 a promontorN- of Alia Minor in jliolis. 



^EGiVDES, N-<:,\JT1, or ^tLcus*: InfuU, three iflands 

 h'^ng north of Cape Lilybxuin, or on the well iide of 

 Sicily oppofite to the main land between Maifella and Tra- 

 pani ; viz. Phorbantia, or Buccina, as Phiy calls it, 

 yEjjufa or Capraria, and Hiera, called alfo Maritima. 

 The fird is now called Lavcnzo, the fecond Favignana, 

 which is very fruitful, and the third Marctamo. In thefe 

 idands the Romans under the Conful L. Catulus obtained a 

 lignal vidor)- over the Carthaginians, which tenuinatcd the 

 firll Punic war. 



iEGjE, or jEc.tAN, is derived, as fome have fuppofed, 

 from the genitive A170; of AiJ, a goat. See tEgf.a. But 

 feveral ingenious modems, and particularly the Abbe Ber- 

 gier and M. Gobelin, tracing the origin of the name to its 

 primitive roots a^, aig, have found that thele words, in 

 the Pelafgic and Celtic languages, denote waters or maritime 

 countries ; and they have concluded, that the appellation 

 jEg;e is derived from the vicinity of the places to which it is 

 applied to waters, or from their being better adapted to 

 maritime commerce than other places. Accordingly they 

 add, that Neptune was particularly honoured in the .£gean 

 cities. 



jEg;e was a city of Cilicia on a promontory- in the gulf 

 of Ifhcus, having Ilfus to the north-ealt, and Ivlallos to the 

 north-weft ; — it was alfo a town of Macedonia, called 

 ^GEA and Edessa : — a town of the Thracian Cherfonefus, 

 probably jEgos Potamos : — a town in the Myrrhina, a 

 country- of jEolis, fouth of Cuma and eaft of Phocxa, on the 

 border of the gulf, which town, as Tacitus infonns us, was 

 overwhelmed by an earthquake : — a town of Lydia : — an- 

 other of Locris : — another of TEtolla : — another of the 

 ifland of Eubcea, where they had a temple of Neptune : — 

 and another of Achaia, on the gulf of Corinth, at the mouth 

 of the river Crathis, (fee Homer II. 1. viii. v. 208.) In 

 jEgx of Cilicia there were medals of gold, bronze, and filver. 

 The fymbol was half a horfe ; and rich imperial medals were 

 Ilruck here in honour of feveral of the Roman emperors. 

 In jEgs of Macedonia, the medals were filver, gold, and 

 bronze ; and the common type was a goat. In jEga; of 

 jEolia, which was governed by praetors, there were ftnick 

 Greek imperial medals in honour of fome of the Roman 

 emperors. 



iEGiEUS, the name of a river, mentioned by Siiidas, 

 in the ifland of Corcyra. Stephanus Byzantinus, and Eufta- 

 thius fpeak of a canton in Phocis, under the name of Cam- 

 pus jEgaeus, (rsJiov aiyxioi') taken from a river iEgas which 

 runs there. 



jEGAGROPILA or jEgagropilus, in Natural 

 Ht/lory, and in Veterinary Mejicine, is a ball generated in 

 the ftomaehs of fome animals. There are t«o fpecies of 

 inteftinal colleclions that have this appellation, but which 

 are entirely dilUmilar. The one is compofcd of hair, and 

 is very ufually found in the ftomach of the nipicapra, or 

 chamois goat. The other fpecies is truly a calculous con- 

 cretion, which is found more frequently in the inteftines of 



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different animals, particularly of horl'es. It is this kind that 

 is fometimes called bezoar Germanicum, or the German 

 BEZOAR. The word is Greek, from ar/ayjo;, the rupicapm 

 or rock goat; and ■ra-iXc;, a ball. See Balls, and Haip.- 

 Balls. 



yEcAGROpiLA, in Botany, a fpecies of Conferva, with 

 veiT nimofe filaments clofely united from the centre, and 

 conftituting a globe. 



jEGAGRUS, in Zoology. See Goat and Ibex. 



iEGAI^EUS Mons, in Ancieut Geography, 11 mountain of 

 Attica, near the ifle of .Salamine : — ^a mountain alfo of Mef- 

 fenia bears the fame name. 



iEGARA, a town of Lydia, according to Ptolemy. 



yECJAS, a river of Phocis. 



jEGEA, a town of Mauritania Cxfarienfis, according to 

 Ptolemy, who places it in long. 26^^, and lat. 27'' 10'. 



^GEA or Edessa, now Vudena, was the ancient capital 

 of Macedonia, the refidence of Caranus, the fait king of 

 Macedon, ;.Md the burial-place of the kings of his line to the 

 time of Alexander the Great. It derived its appellation, 

 as it is pretended, from the following circumllance. Caranus, 

 who was by birth an Argive, leaving his native countr)- at 

 the head of a conhderable body ot Greeks, was undeter- 

 mined where they fliould fettle. But upon confulting tlie 

 oracle, he was inllructed to eftablilh his empire according to 

 the dirccHon of the goats. Ignorant of its meaning, he 

 purfued his courie to the country, afterwards called Mace- 

 donia, and approached EdefTa the capital of the fniall king- 

 dom TEmaihia, governed by king Midas. The fl<y was 

 overcaft, and a ftomi fucceeded ; upon which Caranus ob- 

 ferved a herd of goats running for flielter into the city. 

 This circumllance reminded him of the refponfe of the 

 oracle ; and, commanding his men to follow him, he en- 

 tered the city by furprife, and thus polFefliid himfelf of it 

 and of the whole kingdom. In gratitude to his conductors 

 he changed the name of the place into iEgea, and called his 

 people ^geates or ^geadoe ; and introduced a goat into 

 his Ilandard in commemoration of tlie event. In the book 

 of Daniel, the he-goat is the fymbol of Macedon. PUny, 

 1. iv. c. 10. tom. I. p. 200. Ed. Hard. Mede's Works, 

 B. iii. Comment. Apocal. p. 473. 



^EGEAN Sea, a name given by the ancients to that por- 

 tion of the Mediterranean, which extends from the promon- 

 tory of Sunium and the ifland of Crete, as far as the Hel- 

 lefpont. It is now the Archipelago, feparating Europe from 

 Alia, wafhing on one fide Greece and Macedon, and on the 

 other Caria, Ionia and Phr)-gia. The origin of the appel- 

 lation jEgean has been varioufly afligned. Feftus has re- 

 corded three etymologies ; one that is derived from the 

 numerous iflands that are fcattered over this fea, and which 

 appear at a diilance like a herd of goats ; another, becaufe 

 the queen of the Amazons perifhed in it ; and a third, be- 

 caufe iEgeus the father of Thefeus threw himfelf headlong 

 into it. V'offius, however, and many other learned perfons, 

 are not fatisfied with either of thefe etymologies ; but con- 

 ceive it to be derived from aiys; Doricc jludus ; and that 

 the waves are denominated aiy;;, i. e. goals, on account of 

 the leaping motion of thefe animals. See iEgae. 



The navigation of this fea, which abounds with iflands to 

 the number of 53, from Tcnedos to Crete, according to the 

 enumeration of ancient geographers, and which are com- 

 prehended under the two general denominations of Cy- 

 CLADEs and Sporades, is both difficult and dangerous; 

 whence proceeds the proverb, he fails on the jEgean fea, 

 or Aiyxtx-/ cr?.!i ; applied to a perfon who engages in a 

 hazardous undertaking. The jEgean fea is ufually divided 

 into feven parts, viz. i. The fea of Crete, between that 



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