=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.