Part 7

=Ægiăle=, one of Phaeton’s sisters changed into poplars, and their tears into amber. They are called Heliades.――――A daughter of Adrastus, by Amphitea daughter of Pronax. She married Diomedes, in whose absence, during the Trojan war, she prostituted herself to her servants, and chiefly to Cometes, whom the king had left master of his house. At his return, Diomedes, being told of his wife’s wantonness, went to settle in Daunia. Some say that Venus implanted those vicious and lustful propensities in Ægiale, to revenge herself on Diomedes, who had wounded her in the Trojan war. _Ovid_, _Ibis_, li. 350.――_Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 5, li. 412.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 1, ch. 9.――_Statius_, bk. 3, _Sylvæ_, poem 5, li. 48.

=Ægiălea=, an island near Peloponnesus, in the Cretan sea.――――Another in the Ionian sea, near the Echinades. _Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 12.―― _Herodotus_, bk. 4, ch. 107.――――The ancient name of Peloponnesus. _Strabo_, bk. 12.――_Mela_, bk. 2, ch. 7.

=Ægialeus=, son of Adrastus by Amphitea or Demoanassa, was one of the Epigoni, _i.e._ one of the sons of those generals who were killed in the first Theban war. They went against the Thebans, who had refused to give burial to their fathers, and were victorious. They all returned home safe, except Ægialeus, who was killed. That expedition is called the war of the Epigoni. _Pausanias_, bk. 1, chs. 43, 44; bk. 2, ch. 20; bk. 9, ch. 5.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 1, ch. 9; bk. 3, ch. 7.――――The same as Absyrtus brother to Medea. _Justin_, bk. 42, ch. 3.――_Cicero_, _de Natura Deorum_, bk. 3.――_Diodorus_, bk. 4.

=Ægiălus=, son of Phoroneus, was entrusted with the kingdom of Achaia by king Apis going to Egypt. Peloponnesus was called Ægialea from him.――――A man who founded the kingdom of Sicyon, 2091 before the christian era, and reigned 52 years.

=Ægialus=, a name given to part of Peloponnesus. _See:_ Achaia. _Pausanias_, bk. 5, ch. 1; bk. 7, ch. 1.――――An inconsiderable town of Pontus.――――A city of Asia Minor.――――A city of Thrace near the river Strymon.――――A mountain of Galatia.――――Another in Æthiopia.

=Ægīdes=, a patronymic of Theseus. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 1, li. 265.

=Ægĭla=, a place in Laconia, where Aristomenes was taken prisoner by a crowd of religious women whom he had attacked. _Pausanias_, bk. 4, ch. 17.

=Ægilia=, an island between Crete and Peloponnesus.――――A place in Eubœa. _Herodotus_, bk. 6, ch. 101.

=Ægimius=, an old man who lived, according to Anacreon, 200 years. _Pliny_, bk. 7, ch. 48.――――A king of Doris, whom Hercules assisted to conquer the Lapithæ. _Apollodorus_, bk. 2, ch. 7.

=Ægimōrus=, or =Ægimūrus=, an island near Libya, supposed by some to be the same which Virgil mentions under the name of Aræ. _Pliny_, bk. 5, ch. 7.

=Ægīna=, daughter of Asopus, had Æacus by Jupiter changed into a flame of fire. She afterwards married Actor son of Myrmidon, by whom she had some children, who conspired against their father. Some say that she was changed by Jupiter into the island which bears her name. _Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 12.――_Strabo_, bk. 8.――_Mela_, bk. 2, ch. 7.―― _Apollodorus_, bk. 1, ch. 9; bk. 3, ch. 12.――_Pausanias_, bk. 2, chs. 5 & 29.――――An island formerly called Œnopia, and now Engia, in a part of the Ægean sea, called Saronicus Sinus, about 22 miles in circumference. The inhabitants were once destroyed by a pestilence, and the country was repeopled by ants changed into men by Jupiter, at the prayer of king Æacus. They were once a very powerful nation by sea, but they cowardly gave themselves up to Darius when he demanded submission from all the Greeks. The Athenians under Pericles made war against them; and after taking 70 of their ships in a naval battle, they expelled them from Ægina. The fugitives settled in Peloponnesus, and after the ruin of Athens by Lysander, they returned to their country, but never after rose to their former power or consequence. _Herodotus_, bks. 5, 6, & 7.――_Pausanias_, bk. 2, ch. 29; bk. 8, ch. 44.――_Strabo_, bk. 8.――_Ælian_, _Varia Historia_, bk. 12, ch. 10.

=Æginēta Paulus=, a physician born in Ægina. He flourished in the 3rd, or, according to others, the 7th century, and first deserved to be called man-midwife. He wrote _De Re Medicâ_, in seven books.

=Ægīnētes=, a king of Arcadia, in whose age Lycurgus instituted his famous laws. _Pausanias_, bk. 1, ch. 5.

=Ægiŏchus=, a surname of Jupiter, from his being brought up by the goat Amalthæa, and using her skin instead of a shield, in the war of the Titans. _Diodorus_, bk. 5.

=Ægĭpan=, a name of Pan, because he had goat’s feet.

=Ægīra=, a town between Ætolia and Peloponnesus.――――A town of Achaia. _Pausanias_, bk. 7, ch. 26.――_Herodotus_, bk. 1, ch. 145.

=Ægiroessa=, a town of Ætolia. _Herodotus_, bk. 1, ch. 149.

=Ægis=, the shield of Jupiter, ἀπο της αἰγος, _a goat’s skin_. This was the goat Amalthæa, with whose skin he covered his shield. The goat was placed among the constellations. Jupiter gave this shield to Pallas, who placed upon it Medusa’s head, which turned into stones all those who fixed their eyes upon it. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 8, lis. 352 & 435.

=Ægisthus=, king of Argos, was son of Thyestes by his daughter Pelopea. Thyestes being at variance with his brother Atreus, was told by the oracle that his wrongs could be revenged only by a son born of himself and his daughter. To avoid such an incest, Pelopea had been consecrated to the service of Minerva by her father, who some time after met her in a wood, and ravished her, without knowing who she was. Pelopea kept the sword of her ravisher, and finding it to be her father’s, exposed the child she had brought forth. The child was preserved, and when grown up presented with the sword of his mother’s ravisher. Pelopea soon after this melancholy adventure had married her uncle Atreus, who received into his house her natural son. As Thyestes had debauched the first wife of Atreus, Atreus sent Ægisthus to put him to death; but Thyestes, knowing the assassin’s sword, discovered that he was his own son, and fully to revenge his wrongs, sent him back to murder Atreus. After this murder Thyestes ascended the throne, and banished Agamemnon and Menelaus, the sons, or as others say, the grandsons of Atreus. These children fled to Polyphidus of Sicyon; but as he dreaded the power of their persecutors, he permitted the protection of them to Œneus king of Ætolia. By their marriage with the daughters of Tyndarus king of Sparta, they were empowered to recover the kingdom of Argos, to which Agamemnon succeeded, while Menelaus reigned in his father-in-law’s place. Ægisthus had been reconciled to the sons of Atreus; and when they went to the Trojan war, he was left guardian of Agamemnon’s kingdom, and of his wife Clytemnestra. Ægisthus fell in love with Clytemnestra, and lived with her. On Agamemnon’s return, these two adulterers murdered him, and, by a public marriage, strengthened themselves on the throne of Argos. Orestes, Agamemnon’s son, would have shared his father’s fate, had not his sister Electra privately sent him to his uncle Strophius king of Phocis, where he contracted the most intimate friendship with his cousin Pylades. Some time after, Orestes came to Mycenæ the residence of Ægisthus, and resolved to punish the murderers of his father, in conjunction with Electra, who lived in disguise in the tyrant’s family. To effect this more effectually, Electra publicly declared that her brother Orestes was dead; upon which Ægisthus and Clytemnestra went to the temple of Apollo to return thanks to the god for his death. Orestes, who had secretly concealed himself in the temple, attacked them, and put them both to death, after a reign of seven years. They were buried without the city walls. _See:_ Agamemnon, Thyestes, Orestes, Clytemnestra, Pylades, and Electra. _Ovid_, _de Remedia Amoris_, li. 161; _Tristia_, bk. 2, li. 396.――_Hyginus_, fables 87 & 88.――_Ælian_, _Varia Historia_, bk. 12, ch. 42.――_Pausanias_, bk. 2, ch. 16, &c.――_Sophocles_, _Electra_.――_Aeschylus_ & _Seneca_, _Agamemnon_.――_Homer_, _Odyssey_, bks. 3 & 11.――_Lactantius [Placidus]_ on [Statius’] _Thebaid_, bk. 1, li. 684.――――Pompey used to call Julius Cæsar, Ægisthus, on account of his adultery with his wife Mutia, whom he repudiated after she had borne him three children. _Suetonius_, _Julius Cæsar_, ch. 50.

=Ægĭtum=, a town of Æolia, on a mountain eight miles from the sea. _Thucydides_. Bk. 3, ch. 97.

=Ægium=, a town on the Corinthian isthmus, where Jupiter was said to have been fed by a goat, whence the name. _Strabo_, bk. 8.――_Livy_, bk. 28, ch. 7.

=Ægle=, the youngest daughter of Æsculapius and Lampetie.――――A nymph, daughter of Sol and Neæra. _Virgil_, _Eclogues_, poem 6, li. 20.――――A nymph, daughter of Panopeus, beloved by Theseus after he had left Ariadne. _Plutarch_, _Theseus_.――――One of the Hesperides. ――――One of the Graces.――――A prostitute. _Martial_, bk. 1, ltr. 95.

=Ægles=, a Samian wrestler, born dumb. Seeing some unlawful measures pursued in a contest, he broke the string which held his tongue, through the desire of speaking, and ever after spoke with ease. _Valerius Maximus_, bk. 1, ch. 8.

=Æglētes=, a surname of Apollo.

=Æglŏge=, a nurse of Nero. _Suetonius_, _Nero_, ch. 50.

=Ægobolus=, a surname of Bacchus at Potnia, in Bœotia.

=Ægocĕros=, or =Capricornus=, an animal into which Pan transformed himself when flying before Typhon in the war with the giants. Jupiter made him a constellation. _Lucretius_, bk. 1, li. 613.

=Ægon=, a shepherd. _Virgil_, _Eclogues_.――_Theocritus_, _Idylls_. ――――A promontory of Lemnos.――――A name of the Ægean sea. _Flaccus_, bk. 1, li. 628.――――A boxer of Zacynthus, who dragged a large bull by the heel from a mountain into the city. _Theocritus_, _Idylls_, poem 4.

=Ægospotămos=, i.e. _the goat’s river_, a town in the Thracian Chersonesus, with a river of the same name, where the Athenian fleet, consisting of 180 ships, was defeated by Lysander, on the 13th Dec., B.C. 405, in the last year of the Peloponnesian war. _Mela_, bk. 2, ch. 2.――_Pliny_, bk. 2, ch. 58.――_Pausanias_, bk. 3, chs. 8 & 11.

=Ægosāgæ=, an Asiatic nation under Attalus, with whom he conquered Asia, and to whom he gave a settlement near the Hellespont. _Polybius_, bk. 5.

=Ægus= and =Roscillus=, two brothers amongst the Allobroges, who deserted from Cæsar to Pompey. _Cæsar_, _Civil War_, bk. 3, ch. 59.

=Ægūsa=, the middle island of the Ægates, near Sicily.

=Ægy=, a town near Sparta, destroyed because its inhabitants were suspected by the Spartans of favouring the Arcadians. _Pausanias_, bk. 3, ch. 2.

=Ægypānes=, a nation in the middle of Africa, whose body is human above the waist, and that of a goat below. _Mela_, bk. 1, chs. 4 & 8.

=Ægypsus=, a town of the Getæ, near the Danube. _Ovid_, _ex Ponto_, bk. 1, ltr. 8; bk. 4, ltr. 7.

=Ægypta=, a freedman of Cicero. _Letters to Atticus_, bk. 8.

=Ægyptii=, the inhabitants of Egypt. _See:_ Ægyptus.

=Ægyptium mare=, that part of the Mediterranean sea which is on the coast of Egypt.

=Ægyptus=, son of Belus, and brother to Danaus, gave his 50 sons in marriage to the 50 daughters of his brother. Danaus, who had established himself at Argos, and was jealous of his brother, who, by following him from Egypt into Greece, seemed envious of his prosperity, obliged all his daughters to murder their husbands the first night of their nuptials. This was executed; but Hypermnestra alone spared her husband Lynceus. Even Ægyptus was killed by his niece Polyxena. _See:_ Danaus, Danaides, Lynceus. Ægyptus was king, after his father, of a part of Africa, which from him has been called Ægyptus. _Hyginus_, fables 168, 170.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 2, ch. 1.――_Ovid_, _Heroides_, poem 14.――_Pausanias_, bk. 7, ch. 21.――――An extensive country of Africa, watered by the Nile, bounded on the east by Arabia, and on the west by Libya. Its name is derived from Ægyptus brother to Danaus. Its extent, according to modern calculation, is 180 leagues from north to south, and it measures 120 leagues on the shore of the Mediterranean; but at the distance of 50 leagues from the sea, it diminishes so much as scarce to measure seven or eight leagues between the mountains on the east and west. It is divided into lower, which lies near the Mediterranean, and upper, which is towards the south. Upper Egypt was famous for the town of Thebes, but Lower Egypt was the most peopled, and contained the Delta, a number of large islands, which, from their form, have been called after the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet. This country has been the mother of arts and sciences. The greatest part of Lower Egypt has been formed by the mud and sand carried down by the Nile. The Egyptians reckoned themselves the most ancient nation in the universe [_See:_ Psammetichus], but some authors make them of Æthiopian origin. They were remarkable for their superstition; they paid as much honour to the cat, the crocodile, the bull, and even to onions, as to Isis. Rain never or seldom falls in this country; the fertility of the soil originates in the yearly inundations of the Nile, which rises about 25 feet above the surface of the earth, and exhibits a large plain of waters, in which are scattered here and there the towns and villages, as the Cyclades in the Ægean sea. The air is not wholesome, but the population is great, and the cattle very prolific. It is said that Egypt once contained 20,000 cities, the most remarkable of which were Thebes, Memphis, Alexandria, Pelusium, Coptos, Arsinoe, &c. It was governed by kings who have immortalized themselves by the pyramids they have raised and the canals they have opened. The priests traced the existence of the country for many thousand years, and fondly imagined that the gods were their first sovereigns, and that their monarchy had lasted 11,340 years according to Herodotus. According to the calculation of Constantine Manasses, the kingdom of Egypt lasted 1663 years from its beginning under Misraim the son of Ham, 2188 B.C., to the conquest of Cambyses, 525 B.C. Egypt revolted afterwards from the Persian power, B.C. 414, and Amyrtæus then became king. After him succeeded Psammetichus, whose reign began 408 B.C.: Nephereus, 396: Acoris, 389: Psammuthis, 376: Nepherites, 4 months, and Nectanebis, 375: Tachos, or Teos, 363: Nectanebus, 361. It was conquered by Ochus, 350 B. C.; and after the conquest of Persia by Alexander, Ptolemy refounded the kingdom, and began to reign 323 B.C.: Philadelphus, 284: Evergetes, 246: Philopater, 221: Epiphanes, 204: Philomater, 180 and 169, conjointly with Evergetes II. or Physcon, for six years: Evergetes II. 145: Lathurus Soter, and his mother Cleopatra, 116: Alexander of Cyprus, and Cleopatra, 106: Lathurus Soter restored, 88: Cleopatra II. six months, with Alexander II. 19 days, 81: Ptolemy, surnamed Alexander III. 80: Dionysius, surnamed Auletes, 65: Dionysius II. with Cleopatra III. 51: Cleopatra III. with young Ptolemy, 46, and in 30 B.C. it was reduced by Augustus into a Roman province. The history of Egypt, therefore, can be divided into three epochas: the first beginning with the foundation of the empire, to the conquest of Cambyses; the second ends at the death of Alexander; and the third comprehends the reign of the Ptolemies, and ends at the death of Cleopatra, in the age of Augustus.――_Justin_, bk. 1.――_Hirtius_, _Alexandrine War_, ch. 24.――_Macrobius_, _Somnium Scipionis_, bk. 1, chs. 19 & 21.――_Herodian_, bk. 4, ch. 9.――_Strabo_, bk. 17.――_Herodotus_, bks. 2, 3, & 7.――_Theocritus_, _Idylls_, poem 17, li. 79.――_Polybius_, bk. 15.――_Diodorus_, bk. 1.――_Pliny_, bk. 5, ch. 1; bk. 14, ch. 7.―― _Marcellinus_, bk. 22, ch. 40.――_Justin_, bk. 1.――_Cornelius Nepos_, _Pausanias_, bk. 3; _Iphicrates_; _Datames_, ch. 3.――_Curtius_, bk. 4, ch. 1.――_Juvenal_, satire 15, li. 175.――_Pausanias_, bk. 1, ch. 14.――_Plutarch_, _de Facie in Orbe Lunæ_; _de Iside et Osiride_; _Ptolemy_, _Alexander_.――_Mela_, bk. 1, ch. 9.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 2, chs. 1 & 5.――――A minister of Mausolus king of Caria. _Polyænus_, bk. 6.――――The ancient name of the Nile. _Homer_, _Odyssey_, ♦bk. 14, li. 258.――_Pausanias_, bk. 9, ch. 40.

♦ ‘ξ’ replaced with ‘bk. 14’

=Ægys.= _See:_ Ægy.

=Ægysthus.= _See:_ Ægisthus.

=Ælia=, the wife of Sylla. _Plutarch_, _Sulla_.――――The name of some towns built or repaired by the emperor Adrian.

=Ælia lex=, enacted by Ælius Tubero the tribune, A.U.C. 559, to send two colonies into the country of the Brutii. _Livy_, bk. 34, ch. 53.――――Another A.U.C. 568, ordaining that, in public affairs, the augurs should observe the appearance of the sky, and the magistrates be empowered to postpone the business.――――Another called Ælia Sexta, by _Ælius Sextus_, A.U.C. 756, which enacted, that all slaves who bore any marks of punishment received from their masters, or who had been imprisoned, should be set at liberty, but not rank as Roman citizens.

=Ælia Petina=, of the family of Tubero, married Claudius Cæsar, by whom she had a son. The emperor divorced her to marry Messalina. _Suetonius_, _Claudius_, ch. 26.

=Æliānus Claudus=, a Roman sophist of Præneste, in the reign of Adrian. He first taught rhetoric at Rome; but being disgusted with his profession, he became author, and published treatises on animals in 17 books, on various history in 14 books, &c., in Greek, a language which he preferred to Latin. In his writings he shows himself very fond of the marvellous, and relates many stories which are often devoid of elegance and purity of style; though Philostratus has commended his language as superior to what could be expected from a person who was neither born nor educated in Greece. Ælian died in the 60th year of his age, A.D. 140. The best editions of his works collected together are that of Conrad Gesner, folio, printed Tigurii, 1556, though now seldom to be met with, and that of Kuenius, 2 vols., 8vo, Lipscomb, 1780. Some attribute the treatise on the tactics of the Greeks to another Ælian.

=Ælius= and =Ælia=, a family in Rome, so poor that 16 lived in a small house, and were maintained by the produce of a little field. Their poverty continued till Paulus conquered Perseus king of Macedonia, and gave his son-in-law Æl. Tubero five pounds of gold from the booty. _Valerius Maximus_, bk. 4, ch. 4.

=Ælius Adriānus=, an African, grandfather to the emperor Adrian.――――Gallus, a Roman knight, the first who invaded Arabia Felix. He was very intimate with Strabo the geographer, and sailed on the Nile with him to take a view of the country. _Pliny_, bk. 6, ch. 28.――――Publius, one of the first questors chosen from the plebeians at Rome. _Livy_, bk. 4, ch. 54.――――Quintus Ælius Pætus, son of Sextus or Publius. As he sat in the senate house, a woodpecker perched on his head; upon which a soothsayer exclaimed, that if he preserved the bird, his house would flourish, and Rome decay; and if he killed it, the contrary must happen. Hearing this, Ælius, in the presence of the senate, bit off the head of the bird. All the youths of his family were killed at Cannæ, and the Roman arms were soon attended with success. _Valerius Maximus_, bk. 5, ch. 6.――――Saturninus, a satirist, thrown down from the Tarpeian rock for writing verses against Tiberius.――――Sejānus. _See:_ Sejanus. ――――Sextus Catus, censor with Marcus Cethegus. He separated the senators from the people in the public spectacles. During his consulship, the ambassadors of the Ætolians found him feasting in earthen dishes, and offered him silver vessels, which he refused, satisfied with the earthen cups, &c., which, for his virtues, he had received from his father-in-law, Lucius Paulus, after the conquest of Macedonia. _Pliny_, bk. 33, ch. 11.――_Cicero_, _On Oratory_, bk. 1.――――Spartiānus, wrote the lives of the emperors Adrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius. He flourished A.D. 240. ――――Tubero, grandson of Lucius Paulus, was austere in his morals, and a formidable enemy to the Gracchi. His grandson was accused before Cæsar, and ably defended by Cicero. _Cicero_, _Letters to Brutus_.――――Verus Cæsar, the name of Lucius Ceionius Commodus Verus, after Adrian had adopted him. He was made pretor and consul by the emperor, who was soon convinced of his incapacity in the discharge of public duty. He killed himself by drinking an antidote; and Antoninus, surnamed Pius, was adopted in his place. Ælius was father to Antoninus Verus, whom Pius adopted.――――A physician mentioned by Galen.――――Lucius Gallus, a lawyer, who wrote 12 books concerning the signification of all law words.――――Sextus Pætus, a lawyer, consul at Rome, A.U.C. 566. He is greatly commended by Cicero for his learning, and called _cordatus homo_ by Ennius for his knowledge of law. _Cicero_, _On Oratory_, bk. 1, ch. 48; _Brutus_, ch. 20.――――Stilo, a native of Lanuvium, master to Marcus Terentius Varro, and author of some treatises.――――Lamia. Lamia.

=Aello=, one of the Harpies (from ἑλουσα ἀλλο, _alienum tollens_, or ἀελλα, _tempestas_). _Flaccus_, bk. 4, li. 450.――_Hesiod_, _Theogony_, li. 267.――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 13, li. 710. ――――_See:_ One of Actæon’s dogs. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 3, li. 220.

=Ælurus= (_a cat_), a deity worshipped by the Egyptians; and after death embalmed and buried in the city of Bubastis. _Herodotus_, bk. 2, ch. 66, &c.――_Diodorus_, bk. 1.――_Cicero_, _de Natura Deorum_, bk. 1.――_Aulus Gellius_, bk. 20, ch. 7.――_Plutarch_, _Pyrrhus_.

=Æmathion= and =Æmathia=. _See:_ Emathion.

=Æmilia lex=, was enacted by the dictator Æmilius, A.U.C. 309. It ordained that the censorship, which was before quinquennial, should be limited to one year and a half. _Livy_, bk. 9, ch. 33.――――Another in the second consulship of Æmilius Mamercus, A.U.C. 391. It gave power to the eldest pretor to drive a nail in the capitol on the ides of September. _Livy_, bk. 7, ch. 3.――The driving of a nail was a superstitious ceremony, by which the Romans supposed that a pestilence could be stopped, or an impending calamity averted.

=Æmiliānus C. Julius=, a native of Mauritania, proclaimed emperor after the death of Decius. He marched against Gallus and Valerian, but was informed that they had been murdered by their own troops. He soon after shared their fate.――――One of the thirty tyrants who rebelled in the reign of Gallienus.

=Æmilius.= _See:_ Æmylius.

=Æmnestus=, tyrant of Enna, was deposed by Dionysius the elder. _Diodorus_, bk. 14.

=Æmon.= _See:_ Hæmon.

=Æmŏna=, a large city of Asia. _Cicero_, _for Flaccus_.

=Æmŏnia=, a country of Greece which received its name from Æmon, or Æmus, and was afterwards called Thessaly. Achilles is called _Æmonius_, as being born there. _Ovid_, _Tristia_, bk. 3, poem 11; bk. 4, poem 1.――_Horace_, bk. 1, ode 37. It was also called Pyrrha, from Pyrrha, Deucalion’s wife, who reigned there.――――The word has been indiscriminately applied to all Greece by some writers. _Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 7.

=Æmŏnĭdes=, a priest of Apollo in Italy, killed by Æneas. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 10, li. 537.

=Æmus=, an actor in Domitian’s reign. _Juvenal_, satire 6, li. 197.

=Æmylia=, a noble family in Rome, descended from Mamercus son of Pythagoras, who, for his humanity, was called Αἱμυλος, _blandus_. ――――A vestal who rekindled the fire of Vesta, which was extinguished, by putting her veil over it. _Valerius Maximus_, bk. 1, ch. 1. ――_Dionysius of Halicarnassus_, bk. 2.――――The wife of Africanus the elder, famous for her behaviour to her husband, when suspected of infidelity. _Valerius Maximus_, bk. 6, ch. 7.――――Lepĭda, daughter of Lepidus, married Drusus the younger, whom she disgraced by her wantonness. She killed herself when accused of adultery with a slave. _Tacitus_, bk. 6, ch. 40.――――A part of Italy, called also Flaminia. _Martial_, bk. 6, ltr. 85.――――A public road leading from Placentia to Ariminum; called after the consul Æmylius, who is supposed to have made it. _Martial_, bk. 3, ltr. 4.

=Æmyliānus=, a name of Africanus the younger, son of Publius Æmylius. In him the families of the Scipios and Æmylii were united. Many of that family bore the same name. _Juvenal_, satire 8, li. 2.

=Æmylii=, a noble family in Rome, descended from Æmylius the son of Ascanius. _Plutarch_ says, that they are descended from Mamercus the son of Pythagoras, surnamed Æmylius from the sweetness of his voice, in _Numa_ & _Aemilius Paulus_.――The family was distinguished in the various branches of the Lepidi, Mamerci, Mamercini, Barbulæ, Pauli, and Scauri.