Aeacus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

Aeăcus, i, m., = Αἰακός (Gr. acc. Aeacon, Ov. M. 9, 434), acc. to the fable,

son of Jupiter by Europa , king of Aegina , father of Peleus and Telamon , grandfather of Achilles and Ajax; on account of his just government made judge in the lower regions , with Minos and Rhadamanthus : quam paene judicantem vidimus Aeacum! Hor. C. 2, 13, 22; cf. Ov. M. 3, 25.