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Aegaeus

*Ai)gai=os), a surname of Poseidon, derived from the town of Aegae in Euboea, near which he had a magnificent temple upon a hill. (Strab. ix. p.405; Verg. A. 3.74, where Servius erroneously derives the name from the Aegean sea.)

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