Adonis and Aphrodite, v. 11 _sq._, 29, 280, xi. 294 _sq._; their marriage celebrated at Alexandria, v. 224; perhaps personated by human couples, ix. 386
—— and Attis identified with Dionysus, vi. 127 _n._
——, Attis, Osiris, their mythical similarity, v. 6, vi. 201
—— and Osiris, similarity between their rites, vi. 127
—— or Tammuz, ii. 346; the summer lamentations for, iv. 7
—— and Venus (Aphrodite), i. 21, 25, 40, 41
——, the river, its valley, v. 28 _sqq._; annual discoloration of the, v. 30, 225
Adoption, pretence of birth at, i. 74 _sq._
Adrammelech, burnt sacrifice of children to, iv. 171
Adultery of wife thought to spoil the luck of her absent husband, i. 123, 124 _sq._, 128; supposed to blight the fruits of the earth, ii. 107 _sq._, 114
Aeacus, the son of Zeus by Aegina, ii. 278, 359 _n._ 1; king of Aegina, the dispersal of his descendants, ii. 278; obtains rain from his father Zeus, ii. 359
Aedepsus, hot springs of Hercules at, v. 211 _sq._
Aedesius, Sextilius Agesilaus, dedicates altar to Attis, v. 275 _n._ 1
Aegina, daughter of Asopus and mother of Aeacus, ii. 359 _n._ 8
——, island, Panhellenian Zeus worshipped on the peak of, ii. 359
Aegira in Achaia, inspired priestess of Earth at, i. 381 _sq._
Aegisthus, the murder of, i. 12 _n._; at Mycenae, his marriage with the widow of his predecessor, ii. 281
Aelian, on impregnation of Judean maid by serpent, v. 81; on a Babylonian king Gilgamus, ix. 372 _n._ 1
Aeneas and the Golden Bough, i. 11, ii. 379, xi. 285, 293 _sq._; his vision of the glories of Rome, ii. 178; his disappearance in a thunderstorm, ii. 181; worshipped after death as Jupiter Indiges, ii. 181; and the Game of Troy, iv. 76
—— and Dido, iii. 312, 313, v. 114 _n._ 1
Aeschines, spurious epistles of, ii. 162 _n._ 2
Aesculapius brings Hippolytus or Virbius to life, i. 20, iv. 214; horses dedicated by Hippolytus to, i. 21 _n._ 2, viii. 41 _n._ 5; at Cos, ii. 10; in relation to serpents, v. 80 _sq._; reputed father of Aratus, v. 80 _sq._; his shrines at Sicyon and Titane, v. 81; his dispute with Hercules, v. 209 _sq._; said to have raised Hippolytus from the dead, viii. 41 _n._ 5; at Pergamus, viii. 85; at Epidaurus, ix. 47
Aeson and Medea, v. 181 _n._ 1, viii. 143
Aetolians, the, shod only on one foot, iii. 311