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

IX. Turnus, during the absence of Æneas, fires the ships and assaults the camp. The episode of Nisus and Euryalus. (See NISUS.)

X. The war between Turnus and Æneas. Episode of Mezentius and Lausus. (See LAUSUS.)

XI. The battle continued.

XII. Turnus challenges Æneas to single combat, and is killed.

N.B.—I. The story of Simon and taking of Troy is borrowed from Pisander, as Macrobius informs us.

2. The loves of Dido and Æneas are copied from hose of Medea and Jason, in Apollonius.

3. The story of the wooden horse and the burning of Troy are from Arctinus of Miletus.

Æolus, god of the winds, which he kept imprisoned in a cave in the Æolian Islands, and let free as he wished or as the over-gods commanded.

Was I for this nigh wrecked upon the sea,
And twice by awkward wind from England’s bank
Drove back again unto my native clime? …
Yet Æolus would not be a murderer,
But left that hateful office unto thee.
   —Shakespeare: 2 Henry VI. act v. sc. 2 (1591).

Æsculapius, in Greek Asklepios, the god of healing.

What says my Æsculapius? my Galen? … Hal is he dead?
   —Shakespeare: Merry Wives of Windsor, act ii. sc. 3 (1601).

Æson, the father of Jason. He was restored to youth by Medea, who infused into his veins the juice of certain herbs.

In such a night,
Medea gather’d the enchanted herbs
That did renew old Æson.
   —Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice, act v. sc. I (before 1598).

Æsop, fabulist. His fables in Greek prose are said to have been written about B. C. 570. Æsop was a slave, and, as he was hump-backed, a hump-backed man is called “an Æsop;” hence the young son of Henry VI. calls his uncle Richard of Gloucester “Æsop.”—3 Henry VI. act v. sc. 5.

Æsop’s fables were first translated into English by Caxton in 1484; they were paraphrased by John Ogilby in 1665, and since then by many others. (See Lowndes: Biographer’s Manual.)

Æsop of Arabia (The), Lokman; and Nassen (fifth century).

Æsop of England (The), John Gay (1688–1732).

Æsop of France (The), Jean de la Fontaine (1621–1695).

Æsop of Germany (The), Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781).

Æsop of India (The), Bidpay or Pilpay (third century B. C.).

Afer, the south-west wind. Notus is the full-south wind.

Notus and Afer black with thund’rous clouds.
   —Milton: Paradise Lost, x. 702 (1665).

African Magician (The) pretended to Aladdin to be his uncle, and sent the lad to fetch the “wonderful lamp” from an underground cavern. As Aladdin refused to hand the lamp to the magician, he shut the lad in the cavern, and left him there. Aladdin contrived to get out of the cavern by virtue of a magic