Part 10

=Agathŏclēa=, a beautiful courtesan of Egypt. One of the Ptolemies destroyed his wife Eurydice to marry her. She, with her brother, long governed the kingdom, and attempted to murder the king’s son. _Plutarch_, _Cleomenes_.――_Justin_, bk. 30, ch. 1.

=Agathŏcles=, a lascivious and ignoble youth, son of a potter, who, by entering in the Sicilian army, arrived to the greatest honours, and made himself master of Syracuse. He reduced all Sicily under his power, but being defeated at Himera by the Carthaginians, he carried the war into Africa, where, for four years, he extended his conquests over his enemies. He afterwards passed into Italy, and made himself master of Crotona. He died in his 72nd year, B.C. 289, after a reign of 28 years of mingled prosperity and adversity. _Plutarch_, _Apophthegmata Laconica_.――_Justin_, bks. 22 & 23.―― _Polybius_, bk. 15.――_Diodorus_, bk. 18, &c.――――A son of Lysimachus, taken prisoner by the Getæ. He was ransomed, and married Lysandra daughter of Ptolemy Lagus. His father, in his old age, married Arsinoe the sister of Lysandra. After her husband’s death, Arsinoe, fearful for her children, attempted to murder Agathocles. Some say that she fell in love with him, and killed him because he slighted her. When Agathocles was dead, 283 B.C., Lysandra fled to Seleucus. _Strabo_, bk. 13.――_Plutarch_, _Pyrrhus_ & _Demetrius_.――_Pausanias_, bk. 1, chs. 9 & 10.――――A Grecian historian of Babylon, who wrote an account of Cyzicus. _Cicero_, _de Divinatione_, bk. 1, ch. 24.――――A Chian who wrote on husbandry. _Varro._――――A Samian writer.――――A physician.――――An Athenian archon.

=Agăthon.= _See:_ Agatho.

=Agathonȳmus=, wrote a history of Persia. _Plutarch_, _de Fluviis_.

=Agathosthĕnes=, a poet, &c.

=Agathyllus=, an elegiac poet of Arcadia. _Dionysius of Halicarnassus_, bk. 1.

=Agathynum=, a town of Sicily.

=Agathyrsi=, an effeminate nation of Scythia, who had their wives in common. They received their name from Agathyrsus son of Hercules. _Herodotus_, bk. 4, ch. 10.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 4, li. 146.

=Agāve=, daughter of Cadmus and Hermione, married Echion, by whom she had Pentheus, who was torn to pieces by the Bacchanals. _See:_ Pentheus. She is said to have killed her husband in celebrating the orgies of Bacchus. She received divine honours after death, because she had contributed to the education of Bacchus. _Theocritus_, poem 26.――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 3, li. 725.――_Lucan_, bk. 1, li. 574.――_Statius_, _Thebiad_, bk. 11, li. 318.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 3, ch. 4.――――One of the Nereides. _Apollodorus_, bk. 1.――――A tragedy of Statius. _Juvenal_, satire 7, li. 87, &c.

=Agaui=, a northern nation who lived upon milk. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 13.

=Agāvus=, a son of Priam. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 24.

=Agdestis=, a mountain of Phrygia, where Atys was buried. _Pausanias_, bk. 1, ch. 4.――――A surname of Cybele.

=Agelades=, a statuary of Argos. _Pausanias_, bk. 6, ch. 8; bk. 7, ch. 23.

=Agelastus=, a surname of Crassus, the grandfather of the rich Crassus. He only laughed once in his life, and this, it is said, was upon seeing an ass eat thistles. _Cicero_, _de Finibus_, bk. 5.――_Pliny_, bk. 7, ch. 19.――――The word is also applied to Pluto, from the sullen and melancholy appearance of his countenance.

=Agelāus=, a king of Corinth, son of Ixion.――――One of Penelope’s suitors. _Homer_, _Odyssey_, bk. 20.――――A son of Hercules and Omphale, from whom Crœsus was descended. _Apollodorus_, bk. 2, ch. 7.――――A servant of Priam, who preserved Paris when exposed on mount Ida. _Apollodorus_, bk. 3, ch. 12.

=Agendīcum=, now _Sens_, a town of Gaul, the capital of the Senones. _Cæsar_, _Gallic War_, bk. 6, ch. 44.

=Agēnor=, king of Phœnicia, was son of Neptune and Libya, and brother to Belus. He married Telephassa, by whom he had Cadmus, Phœnix, Cilix, and Europa. _Hyginus_, fable 6.――_Silius Italicus_, bk. 1, li. 15; bk. 17, li. 58.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 2, ch. 1; bk. 3, ch. 1. ――――A son of Jasus and father of Argus. _Apollodorus_, bk. 2, ch. 10.――――A son of Ægyptus. _Apollodorus_, bk. 2, ch. 1.――――A son of Phlegeus. _Apollodorus_, bk. 3, ch. 7.――――A son of Pleuron, father to Phineus. _Apollodorus_, bk. 1, ch. 7.――――A son of Amphion and Niobe. _Apollodorus_, bk. 3, ch. 4.――――A king of Argos, father to Crotopus.――――A son of Antenor. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 21, li. 579. ――――A Mitylenean, who wrote a treatise on music.

=Agenŏrĭdes=, a patronymic applied to Cadmus, and the other descendants of Agenor. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 3, li. 8.

=Agerīnus=, a freedman of Agrippina, accused of attempting Nero’s life. _Tacitus_, _Annals_, bk. 14, ch. 16.

=Agesander=, a sculptor of Rhodes under Vespasian, who made a representation of Laocoon’s history, which now passes for the best relict of all ancient sculpture.

=Agesias=, a Platonic philosopher who taught the immortality of the soul. One of the Ptolemies forbade him to continue his lectures, because his doctrine was so prevalent that many of his auditors committed suicide.

=Agesilāus=, king of Sparta, of the family of the Agidæ, was son of Doryssus and father of Archelaus. During his reign Lycurgus instituted his famous laws. _Herodotus_, bk. 7, ch. 204.――_Pausanias_, bk. 3, ch. 2.――――A son of Archidamus, of the family of the Proclidæ, made king in preference to his nephew Leotychides. He made war against Artaxerxes king of Persia with success; but in the midst of his conquests in Asia, he was recalled home to oppose the Athenians and Bœotians, who desolated his country; and his return was so expeditious that he passed, in 30 days, over that tract of country which had taken up a whole year of Xerxes’ expedition. He defeated his enemies at Coronea; but sickness prevented the progress of his conquests, and the Spartans were beat in every engagement, especially at Leuctra, till he appeared at their head. Though deformed, small of stature, and lame, he was brave, and a greatness of soul compensated all the imperfections of nature. He was as fond of sobriety as of military discipline; and when he went, in his 80th year, to assist Tachus king of Egypt, the servants of the monarch could hardly be persuaded that the Lacedæmonian general was eating with his soldiers on the ground, bare-headed, and without any covering to repose upon. Agesilaus died on his return from Egypt, after a reign of 36 years, 362 B.C., and his remains were embalmed and brought to Lacedæmon. _Justin_, bk. 6, ch. 1.――_Plutarch_ & _Cornelius Nepos_, _Lives of Distinguished Romans_.――_Pausanias_, bk. 3, ch. 9.――_Xenophon_, _Oratation for Agesilaus_.――――A brother of Themistocles, who was sent as a spy into the Persian camp, where he stabbed Mardonius instead of Xerxes. _Plutarch_, _Parallela minora_.――――A surname of Pluto.――――A Greek who wrote a history of Italy.

=Agesipŏlis I.=, king of Lacedæmon, son of Pausanias, obtained a great victory over the Mantineans. He reigned 14 years, and was succeeded by his brother Cleombrotus, B.C. 380. _Pausanias_, bk. 3, ch. 5; bk. 8, ch. 8.――_Xenophon_, bk. 3, _Hellenica_.

=Agesipŏlis II.=, son of Cleombrotus king of Sparta, was succeeded by Cleomenes II., B.C. 370. _Pausanias_, bk. 1, ch. 13; bk. 3, ch. 5.

=Agesistrăta=, the mother of king Agis. _Plutarch_, _Agis_.

=Agesistrătus=, a man who wrote a treatise entitled, _De arte machinali_.

=Aggrammes=, a cruel king of the Gangarides. His father was a hair-dresser, of whom the queen became enamoured, and whom she made governor of the king’s children, to gratify her passion. He killed them to raise Aggrammes, his son by the queen, to the throne. _Curtius_, bk. 9, ch. 2.

=Aggrīnæ=, a people near mount Rhodope. _Cicero_, _Against Piso_, ch. 37.

=Agĭdæ=, the descendants of Eurysthenes, who shared the throne of Sparta with the Proclidæ. The name is derived from Agis son of Eurysthenes. The family became extinct in the person of Cleomenes son of Leonidas. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 8, li. 682.

=Agilāus=, king of Corinth, reigned 36 years.――――One of the Ephori, almost murdered by the partisans of Cleomenes. _Plutarch_, _Cleomenes_.

=Agis=, king of Sparta, succeeded his father Eurysthenes, and, after a reign of one year, was succeeded by his son Echestratus, B.C. 1058. _Pausanias_, bk. 3, ch. 2.――――Another king of Sparta, who waged bloody wars against Athens, and restored liberty to many Greek cities. He attempted to restore the laws of Lycurgus at Sparta, but in vain; the perfidy of friends, who pretended to second his views, brought him to difficulties, and he was at last dragged from a temple, where he had taken refuge, to a prison, where he was strangled by order of the Ephori. _Plutarch_, _Agis_.――――Another, son of Archidamus, who signalized himself in the war which the Spartans waged against Epidaurus. He obtained a victory at Mantinea, and was successful in the Peloponnesian war. He reigned 27 years. _Thucydides_, bks. 3 & 4.――_Pausanias_, bk. 3, chs. 8 & 10.―――― Another, son of Archidamus king of Sparta, who endeavoured to deliver Greece from the empire of Macedonia, with the assistance of the Persians. He was conquered in the attempt, and slain by Antipater, Alexander’s general, and 5300 Lacedæmonians perished with him. _Curtius_, bk. 6, ch. 1.――_Diodorus_, bk. 17.――_Justin_, bk. 12, ch. 1, &c.――――Another, son of Eudamidas, killed in a battle against the Mantineans. _Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 10.――――An Arcadian in the expedition of Cyrus against his father Artaxerxes. _Polyænus_, bk. 7, ch. 18.――――A poet of Argos, who accompanied Alexander into Asia, and said that Bacchus and the sons of Leda would give way to his hero, when a god. _Curtius_, bk. 8, ch. 5.――――A Lycian, who followed Æneas into Italy, where he was killed. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 10, li. 751.

=Aglāia=, one of the Graces, called sometimes Pasiphae. Her sisters were Euphrosyne and Thalia, and they were all daughters of Jupiter and Eurynome. _Pausanias_, bk. 9, ch. 35.

=Aglaonīce=, daughter of Hegemon, was acquainted with astronomy and eclipses, whence she boasted of her power to draw down the moon from heaven. _Plutarch_, _de Defectu Oraculorum_.

=Aglaŏpe=, one of the Sirens.

=Aglaŏphon=, an excellent Greek painter. _Pliny_, bk. 35, ch. 8.

=Aglaosthĕnes=, wrote a history of Naxos. _Strabo_, bk. 6.

=Aglauros=, or =Agraulos=, daughter of Erechtheus the oldest king of Athens, was changed into a stone by Mercury. Some make her daughter of Cecrops. _See:_ Herse. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 2, fable 12.

=Aglaus=, the poorest man of Arcadia, pronounced by the oracle more happy than Gyges king of Lydia. _Pliny_, bk. 7, ch. 46.――_Valerius Maximus_, bk. 7, ch. 1.

=Agna=, a woman in the age of Horace, who, though deformed, had many admirers. _Horace_, bk. 1, satire 3, li. 40.

=Agno=, one of the nymphs who nursed Jupiter. She gave her name to a fountain on mount Lycæus. When the priest of Jupiter, after a prayer, stirred the waters of this fountain with a bough, a thick vapour arose, which was soon dissolved into a plentiful shower. _Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 31, &c.

=Agnodĭce=, an Athenian virgin, who disguised her sex to learn medicine. She was taught by Hierophilus the art of midwifery, and when employed always discovered her sex to her patients. This brought her into so much practice, that the males of her profession, who were now out of employment, accused her, before the Areopagus, of corruption. She confessed her sex to the judges, and a law was immediately made to empower all free-born women to learn midwifery. _Hyginus_, fable 274.

=Agnon=, son of Nicias, was present at the taking of Samos by Pericles. In the Peloponnesian war he went against Potidæa, but abandoned his expedition through disease. He built Amphipolis, whose inhabitants rebelled to Brasidas, whom they regarded as their founder, forgetful of Agnon. _Thucydides_, bks. 2, 3, &c.――――A writer. _Quintilian_, bk. 2, ch. 17.――――One of Alexander’s officers. _Pliny_, bk. 33, ch. 3.

=Agnonĭdes=, a rhetorician of Athens, who accused Phocion of betraying the Piræus to Nicanor. When the people recollected what services Phocion had rendered them, they raised him statues, and put to death his accuser. _Plutarch_ & _Cornelius Nepos_, _Phocion_.

=Agōnālia= and =Agonia=, festivals in Rome, celebrated three times a year in honour of Janus, or Agonius. They were instituted by Numa, and on the festive days the chief priest used to offer a ram. _Ovid_, _Fasti_, bk. 1, li. 317.――_Varro_, _de Lingua Latina_, bk. 5.

=Agōnes Capitolīni=, games celebrated every fifth year upon the Capitoline hill. Prizes were proposed for agility and strength, as well as for poetical and literary compositions. The poet Statius publicly recited there his Thebaid, which was not received with much applause.

=Agonis=, a woman in the temple of Venus, on mount Eryx. _Cicero_, _Against Verres_, bk. 1.

=Agonius=, a Roman deity, who presided over the actions of men. _See:_ Agonalia.

=Agoracrĭtus=, a sculptor of Pharos, who made a statue of Venus for the people of Athens, B.C. 150.

=Agoranŏmi=, ten magistrates at Athens, who watched over the city and port, and inspected whatever was exposed to sale.

=Agorānis=, a river falling into the Ganges. _Arrian_, _de Indica_.

=Agoræa=, a name of Minerva at Sparta. _Pausanias_, bk. 3, ch. 11.

=Agoreus=, a surname of Mercury among the Athenians, from his presiding over the markets. _Pausanias_, bk. 1, ch. 15.

=Agra=, a place of Bœotia where the Ilissus rises. Diana was called Agræa, because she hunted there.――――A city of Susa――――of Arcadia ――――and of Arabia.

=Agræi= and =Agrenses=, a people of Arabia. _Pliny_, bk. 6, ch. 28.――――Of Ætolia. _Livy_, bk. 42, ch. 34.

=Agrāgas=, or =Acragras=, a river, town, and mountain of Sicily; called also Agrigentum. The town was built by the people of Gela, who were a Rhodian colony. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 3, li. 703.―― _Diodorus_, bk. 11.

=Agraria lex=, was enacted to distribute among the Roman people all the lands which they had gained by conquest. It was first proposed A.U.C. 268, by the consul Spurius Cassius Vicellinus, and rejected by the senate. This produced dissensions between the senate and the people, and Cassius, upon seeing the ill success of the new regulations he proposed, offered to distribute among the people the money which was produced from the corn of Sicily, after it had been brought and sold in Rome. This act of liberality the people refused, and tranquillity was soon after re-established in the state. It was proposed a second time A.U.C. 269, by the tribune Licinius Stolo, but with no better success; and so great were the tumults which followed, that one of the tribunes of the people was killed, and many of the senators fined for their opposition. Mutius Scævola, A.U.C. 620, persuaded the tribune Tiberius Gracchus to propose it a third time; and though Octavius, his colleague in the tribuneship, opposed it, yet Tiberius made it pass into a law, after much altercation, and commissioners were authorized to make a division of the lands. This law at last proved fatal to the freedom of Rome under Julius Cæsar. _Florus_, bk. 3, chs. 3 & 13.――_Cicero_, _on the Agrarian Law_.――_Livy_, bk. 2, ch. 41.

=Agraule=, a tribe of Athens. _Plutarch_, _Themistocles_.

=Agraulia=, a festival at Athens in honour of Agraulos. The Cyprians also observed these festivals, by offering human victims.

=Agraulos=, a daughter of Cecrops. _See:_ Aglauros.――――A surname of Minerva.

=Agrauonītæ=, a people of Illyria. _Livy_, bk. 45, ch. 26.

=Agre=, one of Actæon’s dogs. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 3, li. 213.

=Agriānes=, a river of Thrace. _Herodotus_, bk. 4, ch. 9.――――A people that dwelt in the neighbourhood of that river. _Herodotus_, bk. 5, ch. 16.

=Agricŏla=, the father-in-law of the historian Tacitus, who wrote his life. He was eminent for his public and private virtues. He was governor of Britain, and first discovered it to be an island. Domitian envied his virtues; he recalled him from the province he had governed with equity and moderation, and ordered him to enter Rome in the night, that no triumph might be granted him. Agricola obeyed, and without betraying any resentment, he retired to peaceful solitude, and to the enjoyment of the society of a few friends. He died in his 56th year, A. D. 93. _Tacitus_, _Agricola_.

=Agrigentum=, now _Girgenti_, a town of Sicily, 18 stadia from the sea, on mount Agragas. It was founded by a Rhodian, or, according to some, by an Ionian colony. The inhabitants were famous for their hospitality, and for their luxurious manner of living. In its flourishing situation Agrigentum contained 200,000 inhabitants, who submitted with reluctance to the superior power of Syracuse. The government was monarchical, but afterwards a democracy was established. The famous Phalaris usurped the sovereignty, which was also for some time in the hands of the Carthaginians. Agrigentum can now boast of more venerable remains of antiquity than any other town in Sicily. _Polybius_, bk. 9.――_Strabo_, bk. 6.――_Diodorus_, bk. 13.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 3, li. 707.――_Silius Italicus_, bk. 14, li. 211.

=Agrinium=, a city of Acarnania. _Polybius_, bk. 6.

=Agriōnia=, annual festivals in honour of Bacchus, celebrated generally in the night. They were instituted, as some suppose, because the god was attended with wild beasts.

=Agriopas=, a man who wrote the history of all those who had obtained the public prize at Olympia. _Pliny_, bk. 8, ch. 22.

=Agriōpe=, the wife of Agenor king of Phœnicia.

=Marcus Agrippa Vipsanius=, a celebrated Roman, who obtained a victory over Sextus Pompey, and favoured the cause of Augustus at the battles of Actium and Philippi, where he behaved with great valour. He advised his imperial friend to re-establish the republican government at Rome, but he was overruled by Mecænas. In his expeditions in Gaul and Germany, he obtained several victories, but refused the honours of a triumph, and turned his liberality towards the embellishing of Rome and the raising of magnificent buildings, one of which, the Pantheon, still exists. After he had retired for two years to Mitylene, in consequence of a quarrel with Marcellus, Augustus recalled him, and, as a proof of his regard, gave him his daughter Julia in marriage, and left him the care of the empire during an absence of two years employed in visiting the Roman provinces of Greece and Asia. He died, universally lamented, at Rome in the 51st year of his age, 12 B.C., and his body was placed in the tomb which Augustus had prepared for himself. He had been married three times: to Pomponia daughter of Atticus, to Marcella daughter of Octavia, and to Julia, by whom he had five children――Caius, and Lucius Cæsares, Posthumus Agrippa, Agrippina, and Julia. His son, Caius Cæsar Agrippa, was adopted by Augustus, and made consul, by the flattery of the Roman people at the age of 14 or 15. This promising youth went to Armenia on an expedition against the Persians, where he received a fatal blow from the treacherous hand of Lollius, the governor of one of the neighbouring cities. He languished for a little time and died in Lycia. His younger brother, Lucius Cæsar Agrippa, was likewise adopted by his grandfather Augustus; but he was soon after banished to Campania, for using seditious language against his benefactor. In the seventh year of his exile he would have been recalled had not Livia and Tiberius, jealous of the partiality of Augustus for him, ordered him to be assassinated in his 26th year. He has been called ferocious and savage; and he gave himself the name of Neptune, because he was fond of fishing. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 8, li. 682.――_Horace_, bk. 1, ode 6.――――One of the servants of the murdered prince assumed his name and raised commotions. _Tacitus_, _Annals_, bk. 2, ch. 39. ――――Sylvius, a son of Tiberius Sylvius king of Latium. He reigned 33 years, and was succeeded by his son Romulus Sylvius. _Dionysius of Halicarnassus_, bk. 1, ch. 8.――――A consul who conquered the Æqui.――――A philosopher. _Diogenes Laërtius._――――Herodes, a son of Aristobulus, grandson of the Great Herod, who became tutor to the grandchild of Tiberius, and was soon after imprisoned by the suspicious tyrant. When Caligula ascended the throne his favourite was released, presented with a chain of gold as heavy as that which had lately confined him, and made king of Judæa. He was a popular character with the Jews: and it is said, that while they were flattering him with the appellation of God, an angel of God struck him with the lousy disease, of which he died, A.D. 43. His son, of the same name, was the last king of the Jews, deprived of his kingdom by Claudius, in exchange for other provinces. He was with Titus at the celebrated siege of Jerusalem, and died A.D. 94. It was before him that St. Paul pleaded, and made mention of his incestuous commerce with his sister Berenice. _Juvenal_, satire 6, li. 156. ――_Tacitus_, bk. 2, _Histories_, ch. 81.――――Menenius, a Roman general, who obtained a triumph over the Sabines, appeased the populace of Rome by the well-known fable of the belly and the limbs, and erected the new office of tribunes of the people, A.U.C. 261. He died poor, but universally regretted: his funeral was at the expense of the public from which also his daughters received dowries. _Livy_, bk. 2, ch. 32.――_Florus_, bk. 1, ch. 23.――――A mathematician in the reign of Domitian; he was a native of Bithynia.

=Agrippīna=, a wife of Tiberius. The emperor repudiated her to marry Julia. _Suetonius_, _Tiberias_, ch. 7.――――A daughter of Marcus Agrippa, and granddaughter to Augustus. She married Germanicus, whom she accompanied in Syria; and when Piso poisoned him, she carried his ashes to Italy, and accused his murderer, who stabbed himself. She fell under the displeasure of Tiberius, who exiled her in an island, where she died A.D. 26, for want of bread. She left nine children, and was universally distinguished for intrepidity and conjugal affection. _Tacitus_, bk. 1, _Annals_, ch. 2, &c.―― _Suetonius_, _Tiberias_, ch. 52.――――Julia, daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina, married Domitius Ænobarbus, by whom she had Nero. After her husband’s death she married her uncle the emperor Claudius, whom she destroyed to make Nero succeed to the throne. After many cruelties and much licentiousness she was assassinated by order of her son, and as she expired she exclaimed, “Strike the belly which could give birth to such a monster.” She died A.D. 59, after a life of prostitution and incestuous gratifications. It is said that her son viewed her dead body with all the raptures of admiration, saying, he never could have believed his mother was so beautiful a woman. She left memoirs which assisted Tacitus in the composition of his annals. The town which she built, where she was born, on the borders of the Rhine, and called _Agrippina Colonia_, is the modern Cologne. _Tacitus_, _Annals_, bk. 4, ch. 75; bk. 12, chs. 7, 22, &c.

=Agrisius.= _See:_ Acrisius.

=Agrisope=, or =Agriope=, the mother of Cadmus. _Hyginus_, fable 6.

=Agrius=, son of Parthaon drove his brother Œneus from the throne. He was afterwards expelled by Diomedes the grandson of Œneus, upon which he killed himself. _Hyginus_, fables 175 & 242.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 1, ch. 7.――_Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 14, li. 117.――――A giant.――――A centaur killed by Hercules. _Apollodorus_, bk. 2, ch. 5.――――A son of Ulysses by Circe. _Hesiod_, _Theogony_, li. 1013.――――The father of Thersites. _Ovid_, _ex Ponto_, bk. 3, poem 9, li. 9.

=Agrŏlas=, surrounded the citadel of Athens with walls, except that part which afterwards was repaired by Cimon. _Pausanias_, bk. 1, ch. 28.

=Agron=, king of Illyria, who, after conquering the Ætolians, drank to such excess that he died instantly, B.C. 231. _Polybius_, bk. 2, ch. 4.

=Agrotas=, a Greek orator of Marseilles.

=Agrotĕra=, an anniversary sacrifice of goats offered to Diana at Athens. It was instituted by Callimachus the Polemarch, who vowed to sacrifice to the goddess so many goats as there might be enemies killed in a battle which he was going to fight against the troops of Darius, who had invaded Attica. The quantity of the slain was so great, that a sufficient number of goats could not be procured; therefore they were limited to 500 every year, till they equalled the number of Persians slain in battle.――――A temple of Ægira in Peloponnesus, erected to the goddess under this name. _Pausanias_, bk. 7, ch. 26.

=Agyleus= and =Agyieus= from ἀγυια, _a street_, a surname of Apollo, because sacrifices were offered to him in the public streets of Athens. _Horace_, bk. 4, ode 6.