Aegātes, um, f.,
the Aegates , three islands in the Mediterranean , west of Sicily , not far from the promontory of Lilybaeum , where the Carthaginians were conquered by the Romans , 241 B.C., Nep. Ham. 1; Liv. 21, 10; Sil. 1, 60; 6, 684.
AEGA´TES, I´NSULAE, the name given to a group of three small islands, lying off the western extremit...
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