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Strabo, Geography book 8, chapter 6, section 16
Aegina is the name of a place in Epidauria; and it is also the name of an island lying off this part of the mainland—the Aegina of which the poet means to speak in the verses just cited; and it is on this account that some write "the island Aegina" instead of "who held Aegina," thus distinguishing between places of the same name. (16.83)
A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) alphabetic letter A
He was born in the island of Oenone or Oenopia, whither Aegina had been carried by Zeus to secure her from the anger of her parents, and whence this island was afterwards called Aegina. (16.53)
Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon alphabetic letter *a, entry *ai)ginai/h
Aegina, Hdt. (14.63)

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Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome alphabetic letter F, entry 10971
architect; studied under Wyatt; discovered sculptures of pediment of temple of Athene at AEgina; designed Liverpool custom house. [xx. (3.42)
London: Volume 6 (ed. Charles Knight) chapter 11, page 174
Returning through the Phigalian Saloon, towards the ante-room, our eyes are attracted by the two great pediments which decorate the upper portions of the walls of the saloon, which it appears are exact copies in size and in decoration of the eastern and western extremities of the Temple of Jupiter Panhellenius, in the island of Aegina. (2.44)
Charles Knight, Guide cards to the antiquities in the British Museum guidecard 73, object 1
Tarentum and AEgina were considered by the Romans as the best manufactories of candelabra. (1.88)

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