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Aeacus

[ ee-uh-kuhs ]

noun

, Classical Mythology.
  1. a judge in Hades, a son of Zeus and grandfather of Achilles.


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Rhadamanthus shall judge those who come from Asia, and Aeacus those who come from Europe.

Evidently we are to infer that there is no admission for blear eyes in the kingdom of Aeacus.

In Aegina, Hypereides and the others had been taken from the shrine of Aeacus.

You might have imagined them to be Minos, Aeacus, and Rhadamanthus, at the age when they played at leap-frog.

Aeacus (Ae′acus), one of the judges of hell, with Minos and Rhadamanthus.

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