The opening of Part I
(John Sheffield, earl of Mulgrave (1649-1721) wrote an Essay on Poetry.)
ADRIENNE LECOUVREUR, French actress, said to have been poisoned by flowers sent to her by a rival. Died in 1730.
AE'ACUS, king of Oeno'pia, a man of such integrity and piety, that he was made at death one of the three judges of hell. The other two were Minos and Rhadaman'thus.
AEGE'ON a huge monster with 100 arms and 50 heads, who with his brothers, Cottus and Gygês, conquered the Titans by hurling at them 300 rocks at once. Homer says men call him "Aege'on," but by the gods he is called Bri'areus (3 syl.).
Briáreos or Typhon, whom the den
By ancient Tarsus held.--Milton, Paradise Lost, I. 199.