ÆGIUM, in Ancient Geography, a town of Achaia Propria, five miles from the place where Helice stood, and famous for the council of the Acheans, which usually met there on account either of the dignity or commodious situation of the place. It was also famous for the worship of Quaypus Zws, Conventional Jupiters, and of Panachawan Ceres. The territory of Ægium was watered by two rivers, viz. the Phoenix and Meganites. The epithet is Ægiensis. There is a coin in the cabinet of the king of Prussia, with the inscription AIFT, and the figure of a tortoise, which is the symbol of Peloponnesus, and leaves no doubt as to the place where it was struck.