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Αἰγεύς. This is the Spartan version, but there were Aegidae at Thebes and Acragas as well as at Thera and Cyrene, all hereditary priests of Carnean Apollo. Pindar, who himself claimed to be one of them (Pyth. v. 75, but Studniczka, p. 73 f., disputes this explanation), makes them come with the Heraclidae from Thebes to Sparta (Isth. 7. 14 seq.).

φυλῇ is loosely used for φρατρίᾳ: but Gilbert (Gk. Const. Hist. pp. 5-6) thinks the Aegidae were really a ‘third separate community’ at Sparta.

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