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Ifljiid and the Pcloponnefui, 2. The Myitoan fta, before 

 Poloponnefus and Attica. 3. The fea of Greece, alonfr 

 the conft of Greece. 4. The fca of Macedonia, on the coails 

 of that kingdom and of Tiirace. 5. The iEgean fca, pro- 

 perly fo called, between Eubcca and Lemnos. 6. The 

 Icarian fca, towards the hland of Icarus. 7. The Car- 

 pathian fea and that of Rhodes, lying between this ifiand 

 aad that ot Crete. The principal rivers ruiniini; into this 

 fta are the Aliacmon, Erigon, Axius, Strvmon and 

 Nestos. The ^gcaii fca was peculiarly favourable to 

 ootnnierce by means of the fp:'.(:ioiis bays that were formed 

 by it on the Afian coaft, of which tlic moll remarkable were 

 the Strymon'ic, SiNCiTic, Tokonaic and Tni:KM;t;AN. 



^GEIS or ALcis, a tribe of Attica, fo called from 

 JF.gcv.i the fon of Pandion, contained 16 boroughs or 

 towns. 



jEGELETHRON, in Botany, a name ufcd by fome 

 aulhors for the common mcrcurialis, or Eiighih mercury, 

 an eatable wild herb. 



jEGELI, in Ancknt Gfography, a people of Media in Afia, 

 fi'-ppofed by fame to be the fame with the JV.g\i mentioned 

 by Herodotus. 



jTiGELICA, a town of Macedonia, which, as Livy in- 

 forms us, was furprifcd by Attains. 



^"EGEON, In Entomology, a fpccies of Scarab.'Eus, of 

 a red colour, with the horn of the thorax fliort and incurvated 

 and bearded beneath ; and that of the head recurved and 

 fubnlate. It is found in South America and India. 



^'EGEONIS Promontorium, a promontoiy of the Euxine 

 .Sea, at the mouth of the river Rhyndachus, or on the con- 

 fines of Myfia and Bithynia. 



iEGERI, or EcERi, in Geography, a community of 

 Su itzerland, which forms with the town of Zug, and the 

 community of Menfengen and Bar, the fovereignty of the 

 canton of Zug. It is divided into two pariflies ; the higher 

 -ffigeri, where the council of the community is held, and 

 lower iEgcri or Wilxgeri near the lake jEgcri, which is a 

 league is length and veiy deep, and abounds with filli. The 

 river Loretz runs into it. 



iEGERIA, in Entomohgy, a fpecies of Papilio, with 

 dentated brown wings, fpotted with yellow, and with an 

 ocellus on both fides of the anterior wings, and four ocelli 

 on the upper fide of the pofterior wings, and four points 

 under them. It is found on the grafs in Europe. 



jEGESTA, u town of Sicily, called alfo Segesta. It 

 is now Barbara. 



^GETA, Ageta, or Egeta, a town of Upper Mxfia 

 on the Danub?, probably the Eteta of Ptolemy, is placed 

 by M. d'Anville near Trajan's Bridge, fouth-well of 

 Zernes. 



^GEUS, in Fabulous Hl/lory, washing of Athens, and 

 father of Thefeus. Minos kinaf of Crete, havincf fubdued the 

 Athenians, in a war occafioned by their murder oi his ion, 

 inflicted upon them this penalty ; that they (houid annually 

 fend into Crete feven of the nobleft of the Athenian youths 

 to be devoured by the Minotaur. After three years The- 

 feus was fcnt ; the young prince killed the Minotaur ; but 

 having forgotten to change the black fails into white upon 

 his return, according to the inftrnftions given him by his 

 father, jEgeus conceiving him to be dead, call himfelf 

 headlong into the fea, which, from this circunillance, fays 

 the fable, obtained the name of the jEgean fea. The Athe- 

 nians decreed divine honours to Tligeus, and facrificed to 

 Kim as a marine deity, the adopted ion of Neptune. 



iEGIACUS, or ^GiocHus, in Mythology, a name given 

 to Jupiter, on account of the goat Amaltha-a, by which he 

 was fuckled. 



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vEGIiE, in /Indent Geography, a town of Laconia, fouth- 

 well of Crocea : — and a town alfo of iEtolia, which, ac- 

 cording to Diofeorides, aflbrdcd faffron. 



^GIALA, a name anciently given to Achaia pro- 

 pria, or the kingdom of Sicyon, and derived from ^giu- 

 leus, the fuppofed founder and lirll monarch. 



7EGIALE, in Jllythrihgy, one of the three graces. 



7EGIALUS, in /Indent Geography, a fniall town of Afia 

 Minor upon the Euxine, in the dillritl belonging totlie Hencti 

 in Paphlagonia ; — a place in Peloponnefus, between Sicyonc 

 and Buprafium : — atownof Thraee,nearSlrimon : — a town of 

 ^Ethiopia, near the Nile: — a town in the illand of Amorgos; 

 — and a town of Sicyone, afterwards called Mccone. Ira 

 ^Egialus of the Peloponnefus, Greek imperial metals were 

 ilruek under the authority of the archons, in lionour of 

 Caraealla and Domna. 



iEGIAS, among the /Indent Greek Phyftdans, denotes a 

 white Ipeck on the pupil of the eye, ocealioning a dimnefs 

 of fight, either ariling from an excrementitious humour, 

 or from the relifts of the dcatrkula of an ulcer on the 

 part. 



This is the fame witli what others write agh and aglia. 



.fllGICERAS, formed ot ai|, vt goal, and xffa;, a ^0;//, 

 in Botany, a genus of the clafs and order of pentandr'ia mo- 

 nogynia ; the characters of which are, that the calyx is a 

 one-leafed, bell-lhaped, half-five-cleft, coriaceous, perma- 

 nent periantliium ; the corolla has five petals ; the hamin:i 

 are live filaments ; the pillillum is an oblong gcrmcn with 

 a fiugle llyle ; the periearpium is a bowed, coriaceous, one- 

 celled, one-valved capfule, gaping on the convex fide ; and 

 the feed is fingle. There are two fpecies ; one, a native of 

 the fvlolucca illands, the rh'rzophoru eornhu/ata of Linn;tu>. ; 

 the other a native of Ceylon. Martyn. 



.iEGICOREOS, in /Indent Geography, was one of the 

 four firll tribes of Attica. 



-•EGIDA, the principal town on the north of the terri- 

 tory of Iftria in Italy, fituated in a fmall illand, joined t* 

 the land by a bridge. Pliny has preferved the ancient name, 

 and in an infcription of Gruter, it is csihd A'^gie/is in/ii/a-s 

 It was afterwards called Jullinopolis, after the emperor 

 Juflinian ; and it is now Capo ile IJlria. N. lat. 45^ 5c'-. 

 E. long. 14° 20'. 



jEGIDES, in Surgery, is a teirn employed by IIipp<">» 

 crates (Praedift. L. ii. aiyiJ-i,-) to denote an opacity uf the 

 cornea, which intercepts the rays of light pafling through 

 the pupil. See Albugo, Leucoma, and Ophthal- 

 mia. 



iEGIDION, a name given to a coUyrlum for inflamnta- 

 tions and defluxions of the eyes. It is alfo called itgopro* 

 fopon. 



jEgidion Infula, in Ane'ient Geography, a name given by 

 Arrian to an illand in the Indian Sea. 



jEGIDIUS, Pltrus Albiensis, in Biography, was 

 deputed by Francis I. to vifit the celebrated places in the 

 Eail, and to learn their ftate. He was taken by pirateSi 

 but made his efcape, and died of a furfcit in 1555, at the 

 age of 65 yejirs. His works are " Dilcriplio Bofphoii 

 Thracix," " Defcriptio Urbis Conllanlinopolitana"," " De 

 Pifcium Maffilienfium nominibus Gallieis et I.utinis," " De 

 Elephanto." He likewife tranflated into Latin Thcodo- 

 ret's Commentary upon the twelve minor prophets, and 

 .Elian's fixteen books of the liillory of animals. 



^GiDius, funiamed ylthenienfts, was a Greek, phyfi- 

 cian and philofopher under the emperor Tiberius II, in the 

 eighth century. He became a Bene.liftinc, and wrote fc- 

 veral tratts, of which the principal are thoh- ; " Dc I'ulfi- 

 bus et de Venenis," Being accidentally wounded by an 

 4. arrow, 



