Aŏnes

, the inhabitants of Aonia , called afterwards Bœotia. They came there in the age of Cadmus, and obtained his leave to settle with the Phœnicians. The muses have been called Aonides , because Aonia was more particularly frequented by them. Pausanias , bk. 9 , ch. 3 .— Ovid , Metamorphoses , bks. 3, 7, 10, 13; Tristia , poem 5, li. 10 ; Fasti , bk. 3 , li. 456 ; bk. 4 , li. 245 .— Virgil , Georgics , bk. 3 , li. 11 .