Aegium
place · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
Peloponnesian Aegium · the town of Aegium
in the texts
De Rerum Natura
A city in the Peloponnese cited as an example of a city destroyed by earthquake.
And once in Peloponnesian Aegium,
O'erthrew of old. And many a walled town,
And earth's convulsion, following hard upon,
Ad Uxorem
A town where a virgin is chosen by lot for the cult of Juno.
For Achaean Juno, at the town of Aegium, a virgin is chosen by lot, and the women who rave at Delphi know nothing of marriage.