=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_.