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There are other indications, too, of the importance of the Aeginetan fleet in the Greek scheme of defence.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

Flinders Petrie adds a note on the weights discovered, almost all of which belong to the Phœnician and Aeginetan systems.

From The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 by Various

In a sort of stiff grace, combined with a sense of things bright or sorrowful directly felt, the Aeginetan workman is as it were the Chaucer of Greek sculpture.

From Greek Studies: a Series of Essays by Pater, Walter

"The Aeginetan stater weighed about 196 grains, rather more than two of our shillings, and was divided into two drachms of 98 grains, each of which contained six obols of about 16 grains each."

From Hellenica by Dakyns, Henry Graham

The Aeginetan marbles show the traces of dying archaism.

From Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable by Bulfinch, Thomas