Melanaegis

(Μελαναιγίς), i.e. armed or clad with a black aegis, occurred as a surname of Dionysus at Eleutherae (Suid. s. v. Ἐλεύθερος ; Paus. 1.38.8), and at Athens (Suid. s. v. Ἀπατούρια; Conon, Narrat. 39; Paus. 2.35.1; comnp. Melanthus), and of the Erinnys. (Aeschyl. Sept. 700.) [L.S]