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aegina
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n. 1 (context Greek god English) A nymph of the island that bears her name. 2 (context astronomy English) Short for (w: 91 Aegina), a main belt asteroid. 3 (sense: Geography) An island in Greece.
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Aegina was a figure of Greek mythology , the nymph of the island that bears her name, Aegina , lying in the Saronic Gulf between Attica and the Peloponnesos . The archaic Temple of Aphaea , the "Invisible Goddess", on the island was later subsumed by the ...
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Corinth on the good road, then by ship through the Saronic Gulf, steering between the islands of Salamis and Aegina, rounding Cape Sounion, hugging the shore to escape the wind, passing on the lee side of Macronisi, entering the mouth of the Euboean Strait.
Before the last world war, he spent a great deal of his time on the island of Aegina, where he devoted himself to his philosophical and literary work.
In fact, everything that the so-called party of the people has undertaken has failed, excepting the conquest of the nearby island of Aegina and a victorious skirmish or two in the environs of Athens.
If the cloud which Jupiter assumed was of the imperial tone and of the fascinating fashion which the groveller in the mud creates, Aegina would have been superfeminine had she not joyously surrendered.
Subsequently war broke out between Aegina and Athens, and there was a great battle at sea off Aegina between the Athenians and Aeginetans, each being aided by their allies.
Upon this the Peloponnesians, desirous of aiding the Aeginetans, threw into Aegina a force of three hundred heavy infantry, who had before been serving with the Corinthians and Epidaurians.
Nor should it be forgotten that long before Daedalus appeared in Attica and with his wooden statues so transformed sculpture as to make possible the schools of Corinth and AEgina, and their ultimate triumphs the Poecile and Capitolium--long before the age of Daedalus, I say, two Israelites, Bezaleel and Aholiab, the master-builders of the first tabernacle, said to have been skilled 'in all manner of workmanship,' wrought the cherubim of the mercy-seat above the ark.