Aegles
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Aegles (Ancient Greek: Αίγλης) was a Samian athlete, who was mute. He recovered his voice when he made an effort on one occasion to express his indignation at an attempt to impose upon him in a public contest.[1][2][3]
[edit] References
- ^ Gell., v. 9
- ^ Valerius Maximus, i. 8, ext. 4
- ^ Smith, William (1867), “Aegles”, in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston, pp. 27
[edit] Sources
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).
