_Agnes_ (_St._), a young virgin of Palermo, who at the age of thirteen was martyred at Rome during the Diocletian persecution of A.D. 304. Prudence (Aurelius Prudentius Clemens), a Latin Christian poet of the fourth century, has a poem on the subject. Tintoret and Domenichi'no have both made her the subject of a painting.--_The Martyrdom of St. Agnes_. _St. Agnes and the Devil_. St. Agnes, having escaped from the prison at Rome, took shipping and landed at St. Piran Arwothall. The devil dogged her, but she rebuked him, and the large moor-stones between St. Piran and St. Agnes, in Cornwall, mark the places where the devils were turned into stone by the looks of the indignant saint.--Polwhele, _History of Cornwall_. _Agnes of Sorrento_, heroine of novel of same name, by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The scene of the story is laid in Sorrento, Italy. AGRAMAN'TE (4 _syl_.) or AG'RAMANT, king of the Moors, in _Orlando Innamorato_, by Bojardo, and _Orlando Furioso_, by Ariosto. AGRAWAIN (_Sir_) or SIR AGRAVAIN, surnamed "The Desirous," and also "The Haughty." He was son of Lot (king of Orkney) and Margawse half-sister of king Arthur. His brothers were sir Gaw'ain, sir Ga'heris, and sir Gareth. Mordred was his half-brother, being the son of king Arthur and Margawse. Sir Agravain and sir Mordred hated sir Launcelot, and told the king he was too familiar with the queen; so they asked the king to spend the day in hunting, and kept watch. The queen sent for sir Launcelot to her private chamber, and sir Agravain, sir Mordred, and twelve others assailed the door, but sir Launcelot slew them all except sir Mordred, who escaped.--Sir T. Malory, _History of Prince Arthur_, iii. 142-145 (1470). AGRICA'NE (4 _syl._), king of Tartary, in the _Orlando Innamorato_, of Bojardo. He besieges Angelica in the castle of Albracca, and is slain in single combat by Orlando. He brought into the field 2,200,000 troops. Such forces met not, nor so wide a camp, When Agrican, with all his northern powers, Besieged Albracca. Milton, _Paradise Regained_, iii. (338). AGRICOLA FUSILIER, a pompous old creole, a conserver of family traditions, and patriot who figures in George W. Cable's _Grandissimes_ (1880). He seemed to fancy himself haranguing a crowd; made another struggle for intelligence, tried once, twice to speak, and the third time succeeded: "Louis--_Louisian--a--for--ever!_" and lay still. They put those two words on his tomb. AG'RIOS, Lumpishness personified; a "sullen swain, all mirth that in himself and others hated; dull, dead, and leaden." Described in canto viii. of _The Purple Island_, by Phineas Fletcher (1635). (Greek, _agrios_; "a savage.") AGRIPPINA was granddaughter, wife, sister, and mother of an emperor. She was granddaughter of Augustus, wife of Claudius, sister of Caligula, and mother of Nero. [Illustration] Lam'pedo of Lacedaemon was daughter, wife, sister, and mother of a king.