=Africānus=, a blind poet, commended by Ennius.――――A christian writer, who flourished A.D. 222. In his chronicle, which was universally esteemed, he reckoned 5500 years from the creation of the world to the age of Julius Cæsar. Nothing remains of this work but what Eusebius has preserved. In a letter to Origen, Africanus proved that the history of Susanna is supposititious; and in another to Aristides, still extant, he endeavours to reconcile the seeming contradictions that appear in the genealogies of Christ in St. Matthew and Luke. He is supposed to be the same who wrote nine books, in which he treats of physic, agriculture, &c.――――A lawyer, disciple to Papinian, and intimate with the emperor Alexander.――――An orator mentioned by Quintilian.――――The surname of the Scipios, from the conquest of Africa. _See:_ Scipio. =Afrĭcum mare=, is that part of the Mediterranean which is on the coast of Africa. =Agăgriāne portæ=, gates at Syracuse, near which the dead were buried. _Cicero_, _Tusculanæ Disputationes_. =Agalasses=, a nation of India, conquered by Alexander. _Diodorus_, bk. 17. =Agalla=, a woman of Corcyra, who wrote a treatise upon grammar. _Athenæus_, bk. 1. =Agamēdes= and =Trophonius=, two architects who made the entrance of the temple of Delphi, for which they demanded of the god whatever gift was most advantageous for a man to receive. Eight days after they were found dead in their bed. _Plutarch_, _Consolatio ad Apollonium_.――_Cicero_, _Tusculanæ Disputationes_, bk. 1, ch. 47. ――_Pausanias_, bk. 9, chs. 11 & 37, gives a different account.