ÆGE, or ÆGEA, (anc. geogr.) the name of Ædessa, so called from the following adventure: Car-
nus, the first king of Macedonia, being ordered by the oracle to seek out a settlement in Macedonia, under the conduct of a flock of goats, surprised the town of Ædessa, during a thick fog and rainy weather, in following the goats, that fled from the rain; which goats ever after, in all his military expeditions, he caused always to precede his standard; and in memory of this he called Ædessa Ægea, and his people Ægeade. And hence probably, in the prophet Daniel, the he-goat is the symbol of the king of Macedon.