Chapter Ægeon to African Magician of A by Brewer's Readers Handbook

rose to be the abbess. Without her knowing it, one of her twins also settled in Ephesus, and rose to be one of its greatest and richest citizens. The other son and her husband Ægeon both set foot in Ephesus the same day without the knowledge of each other, and all met together in the duke’s court, when the story of their lives was told, and they became again united to each other.—Shakespeare: Comedy of Errors (1593).

Æmonian Arts, magic, so called from Æmonia (Thessaly), noted for magic.

Æmonian (The). Jason was so called because his father was king of Æmonia.

Æneas, a Trojan prince, the hero of Virgil’s epic called Æneid. He was the son of Anchises and Venus. His first wife was Cr eusa , by whom he had a son named Ascanius; his second wife was Lavinia, daughter of Latinus king of Italy, by whom he had a posthumous son called Æneas Sylvius. He succeeded his father-in-law in the kingdom, and the Romans called him their founder.

(According to Geoffrey of Monmouth, “Brutus,” the first king of Britain (from whom the island was called Britain), was a descendant of Æneas. Of course this is mere fable.)

Æneas, wandering prince of Troy, a ballad in Percy’s Reliques (bk. ii. 22). The tale differs from that of Virgil in some points. Æneas remained in Carthage one day, and then departed. Dido slew herself “with bloody knife.” Æneas reached “an ile of Greece, where he stayed a long time,” when Dido’s ghost appeared to him, and reproved him for perfidy; whereupon a “multitude of uglye fiends” carried him off, “and no man knew his dying day.”

Virgil says that Dido destroyed herself on a funeral pile.

Æneid, t he epic poem of Virgil, in twelve b ooks. W hen Troy was ta ken by the Greeks and set on fire, Æneas with his father, son, and wife, took flight, with the intention of going to Italy, the original birthplace of the family. The wife was lo st, and the old father died on the way; but after numerous perils by sea and land, Æneas and his son Ascanius reached Italy. Here Latinus, the reigning king, received the exiles hospitably, and promised his daughter Lavinia in marriage to Æneas; but she had been already betrothed by her mother to prince Turnus, son of Daunus, king of the Rutuli, and Turnus would not forego his claim. Latinus, in this dilemma, said the rivals must settle the dispute by an appeal to arms. Turnus being slain, Æneas married Lavinia, and ere long succeeded his father-in-law on the throne.

Book I. The escape from Troy; Æneas and his son, driven by a tempest on the shores of Carthage, are hospitably entertained by queen Dido.

II. Æneas tells Dido the tale of the wooden horse, the burning of Troy, and his flight with his father, wife, and son. The wife was lost and died.

III. The narrative continued; he recounts the perils he met with on his way, and the death of his father.

IV. Dido falls in love with Æneas; but he steals away from Carthage, and Dido, on a funeral pyre, puts an end to her life.

V. Æneas reaches Sicily, and witnesses there the annual games. This book corresponds to the Iliad, xxiii.

VI. Æneas visits the infernal regions. This book corresponds to Odyssey, xi.

VII. Latinus king of Italy entertai ns Æneas, and promises to him Lavinia (his daughter) in marriage; but prince Turnus had been already betrothed to her by the mother, and raises an army to resist Æneas.

VIII. Preparations on both sides for a general war.