=Agapēnor=, the commander of Agamemnon’s fleet. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 2.――――The son of Ancæus, and grandson of Lycurgus, who, after the ruin of Troy, was carried by a storm into Cyprus, where he built Paphos. _Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 5.――_Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 2. =Agar=, a town of Africa. _Hirtius_, _African War_, ch. 76. =Agarēni=, a people of Arabia. Trajan destroyed their city, called Agarum. _Strabo_, bk. 16. =Agarista=, daughter of Clisthenes, was courted by all the princes of Greece. She married Megacles. _Ælian_, _Varia Historia_, bk. 12, ch. 24.――_Herodotus_, bk. 6, ch. 126, &c.――――A daughter of Hippocrates, who married Xantippus. She dreamed that she had brought forth a lion, and some time after became mother of Pericles. _Plutarch_, _Pericles_.――_Herodotus_, bk. 6, ch. 131. =Agasĭcles=, king of Sparta, was son of Archidamus, and one of the Proclidæ. He used to say that a king ought to govern his subjects as a father governs his children. _Pausanias_, bk. 3, ch. 7.――_Plutarch_, _Apophthegmata Laconica_. =Agassæ=, a city of Thessaly. _Livy_, bk. 45, ch. 27. =Agasthĕnes=, father to Polyxenus, was, as one of Helen’s suitors, concerned in the Trojan war. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 2.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 3, ch. 11.――――A son of Augeas, who succeeded as king of Elis. _Pausanias_, bk. 5, ch. 3. =Agrastrŏphus=, a Trojan, wounded by Diomedes. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 11, li. 338. =Agasthus=, an archon of Athens. =Agăsus=, a harbour on the coast of Apulia. _Pliny_, bk. 3, ch. 11. =Agătha=, a town of France near _Agde_, in Languedoc. _Mela_, bk. 2, ch. 5. =Agatharchĭdas=, a general of Corinth in the Peloponnesian war. _Thucydides_, bk. 2, ch. 83.――――A Samian philosopher and historian, who wrote a treatise on stones, and a history of Persia and Phœnice, besides an account of the Red sea, of Europe and Asia. Some make him a native of Cnidus, and add that he flourished about 177 B.C. _Josephus_, _Against Apion_. =Agatharchus=, an officer in the Syracusan fleet. _Thucydides_, bk. 7, ch. 27.――――A painter in the age of Zeuxis. _Plutarch_, _Pericles_. =Agathias=, a Greek historian of Æolia.――――A poet and historian in the age of Justinian, of whose reign he published the history in five books. Several of his epigrams are found in the _Anthologia_. His history is a sequel of that of Procopius. The best edition is that of Paris, folio, 1660.