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Aea.
n.  a capital in the Tarabulus region of Libya.

<[Some minstrels say that the Argonauts’] visit to Libya took place before the voyage to Aea began, when Jason went in the Argo to consult the Delphic Oracle and was driven off his course by a sudden storm.  —Robert Graves, The Greek Myths, Volume 2.>

Aeaea.
(also Aiaie.)  n.  the legendary Tyrrhenian Sea home of Circe.

<Never would they have landed if they had known what lay before them.  They had come to Aeaea, the realm of Circe, a most beautiful and most dangerous witch.  Every man who approached her she turned into a beast.  —Edith Hamilton, Mythology: Timeless Takes of Gods and Heroes.>

aeai.
n.  a rogue artificial intelligence program, tens of thousands of times more intelligent than a human, in the novel River of Gods by Ian McDonald.


Aeai.
n.  a stream in the Solomon Islands.


aeee aeee.
interj.  an emphatic yes.

<Petey broke into a huge smile and nodded his head.  “Aeee, aeee,” he squealed.  —Ben Mikaelsen, Petey.>


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