=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.