ÆGEA, or ÆGEA, in Ancient Geography, the name of Ædessa, so called from the following adventure: Caranus, 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 to precede his standard; and in memory of this he called Ædessa Ægea, and his people Ægeadæ. And hence probably, in the prophet Daniel, the he-goat is the symbol of the king of Macedon.