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Augeiae

Αὐγειαί

Augeiae (Αὐγειαί: Etth. Αὐγεάτης).

1.

A town of Locris Epicnemidia, near Scarpheia, mentioned by Homer, but which had disappeared in the time of Strabo. (Hom. Il. 2.532; Strab. ix. p.426; Steph. B. sub voce

2.

A town of Laconia, mentioned by Homer (Hom. Il. 2.583), probably the same as the later Aegiae. [AEGIAE]

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.