Augeiae (Laconia)
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Augeiae or Augeiai (Ancient Greek: Αὐγειαί)[1] was a town of ancient Laconia, mentioned by Homer in the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad,[2] Strabo says the town was the same as the later Aegiae.[3] Pausanias agrees with Strabo in that the name of the city had changed, but with a small variation, since he calls it "Aegias", which he places at thirty stadia from Gythium and situates in it a lagoon with a temple and a statue of Poseidon. There was a superstition that those who caught fish from the lagoon would become fishermen.[4]
If Augeiae is colocated with Aegiae, it is at 36°47′11″N 22°30′46″E / 36.786285°N 22.512906°E.[5]
