Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), A, Antipăter, Aŏnes

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Aŏnes

（Ἄονες). An ancient Boeotian race, said to have been so called from Aon, son of Poseidon. Hence the poets frequently use Aonia as equivalent to Boeotia. As Mount Helicon and the fountain Aganippé were in Aonia, the Muses are called Aonides or Aoniae.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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