William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a
ix.
145, with the note of Eus- alone bad one hundred ships, independent of sixty
tath. ; Lucret. i. 86. ) The manner in which Aga- which he had lent to the Arcadians. (11. ü. 576,
memnon came to the kingdom of Mycenae, is dif- 612. )
ferently related. From Homer (11. ii. 108; comp. In the tenth year of the siege of Troy-for it is
Paus. ix. 40. 86), it appears as if he had peaceably in this year that the Iliad opens—we find Aga-
succeeded Thyestes, while, according to others memnon involved in a quarrel with Achilles re-
(Aeschyl. Agam. 1605), he expelled Thyestes, and specting the possession of Briseïs, whom Achilles
risurped his throne. After he had become king of was obliged to give up to Agamemnon. Achilles
Mycenae, he rendered Sicyon and its king subjectſ withdrew from the field of battle, and the Greeks
to himself (Paus. Ü. 6. § 4), and became the most were visited by successive disasters. (ACHILLES. )
powerful prince in Greece. A catalogue of his Zeus sent a dream to Agamemnon to persuade him
dominions is given in the Iliad. (ii. 569, &c. ; to lead the Greeks to battle against the Trojans.
comp. Strab. viii. p. 377; Thucyd. i. 9. ) When (N. Ï. 8, &c. ) The king, in order to try the
Homer (Il. ii. 108) attributes to Agamemnon the Greeks, commanded them to return home, with
sovereignty over all Argos, the name Argos here which they readily complied, until their courage
signifies Peloponnessus, or the greater part of it, was revived by Odysseus, who persuaded them to
for the city of Argos was governed by Diomedes. prepare for battle. (12. q. 55, &c. ) After a single
(Il. ü. 559, &c. ) Strabo (l. c. ) has also shewn combat between Paris and Menelaus, a battle
that the name Argos is sometimes used by the tra- followed, in which Agamemnon killed several of
gic poets as synonymous with Mycenae.
the Trojans. When Hector challenged the bravest
When Helen, the wife of Menelaus, was carried of the Greeks, Agamemnon offered to fight with
off by Paris, the son of Priam, Agamemnon and him, but in his stead Ajax was chosen by lot.
Menelaus called upon all the Greek chiefs for as- Soon after this another battle took place, in which
sistance against Troy. (Odyss. xxiv. 115. ) The the Greeks were worsted (Il. viii. ), and Agamem-
chiefs met at Argos in the palace of Diomedes, non in despondence advised the Greeks to take to
where Agamemnon was chosen their chief com- flight and return home. (IL ix. 10. ) But he
mander, either in consequence of his superior power was opposed by the other heroes. An attempt to
(Eustath, ad I. ii. 108; Thucyd. i. 9), or because conciliate Achilles failed, and Agamemnon assem-
he had gained the favour of the assembled chiefs bled the chiefs in the night to deliberate about the
by giving them rich presents. (Dictys, Cret. i. 15, measures to be adopted. (I. . , &c. ) Odysseus
16. ) After two years of preparation, the Greek and Diomedes were then sent out as spies, and on
army and fleet assembled in the port of Aulis in the day following the contest with the Trojans was
Boeotia. Agamemnon had previously consulted renewed. Agamemnon himself was again one of
the oracle about the issue of the enterprise, and the bravest, and blew many enemies with his own
the answer given was, that Troy should fall at the hand. At last, however, he was wounded by Coon
time when the most distinguished among the Greeks and obliged to withdraw to his tent. (N. xi. 250,
should quarrel. (Od. viii. 80. ) A similar prophecy &c. ) Hector now advanced victoriously, and Aga-
was derived from a marvellous occurrence which memnon again advised the Greeks to save them-
happened while the Greeks were assembled at selves by flight. (N. xiv. 75, &c. ) But Odysseus
Aulis. Once when a sacrifice was offered under and Diomedes again resisted him, and the latter
the boughs of a tree, a dragon crawled forth from prevailed upon him to return to the battle which was
under it, and devoured a nest on the tree containing going on near the ships. Poseidon also appeared
eight young birds and their mother. Calchas in-
to Agamemnon in the figure of an aged man, and
terpreted the sign to indicate that the Greeks inspired him with new courage. (N. xiv. 125, &c. )
would have to fight against Troy for nine years, The pressing danger of the Greeks at last induced
but that in the tenth the city would fall. (n. ii. Patroclus, the friend of Achilles, to take an
303, &c. ) An account of a different miracle por- energetic part in the battle, and his fall roused
tending the same thing is given by Aeschylus. Achilles to new activity, and led to his reconcilia-
(Agam. 110, &c. ) Another interesting incident tion with Agamemnon. In the games at the
happened while the Greeks were assembled at funeral pyre of Patroclus, Agamemnon gained the
Aulis. Agamemnon, it is said, killed a stag which first prize in throwing the spear. (1. xxiii. 890,
was sacred to Artemis, and in addition provoked &c. )
the anger of the goddess by irreverent words. Agamemnon, although the chief commander of
She in return visited the Greek army with a pes- the Greeks, is not the hero of the Iliad, and in
tilence, and produced a perfect calm, so that the chivalrous spirit, bravery, and character, altogether
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AGAPETUS.
inferior to Achilles. But he nevertheless rises | marked that several Latin poets mention a bastard
above all the Greeks by his dignity, power, and son of Agamemnon, of the name of Halesus, to
majesty (Il. iji. 166, &c. ), and his eyes and head whom the foundation of the town of Falisci or
are likened to those of Zeus, his girdle to that of Alesium is ascribed. (Ov. Fast. iv. 73; Amor.
Ares, and his breast to that of Poseidon. (Il. ii
. ii. 13. 31 ; comp. Serv. ad Aen. vii. 695; Sil.
477, &c. ) Agamemnon is among the Greek Ital. viii. 476. )
heroes what Zeus is among the gods of Olympus. 2. A surname of Zeus, under which te was
This idea appears to have guided the Greek artists, worshipped at Sparta (Lycophr. 335, with the
for in several representations of Agamemnon still Schol. ; Eustath. ad Il. ii. 25. ) Eustathius thinks
extant there is a remarkable resemblance to the that the god derived this name from the resem-
representations of Zeus. The emblem of his power blance between him and Agamemnon ; while
and majesty in Homer is a sceptre, the work of others believe that it is a mere epithet signifying
llephaestus, which Zeus had once given to Hermes, the Eternal, from ayar and uévwv. (L. S. )
and Hermes to Pelops, from whom it descended AGAMEMNONIDES (Αγαμεμνονίδης), a
to Agamemnon. (1. ii. 100, &c. ; comp. Paus. ix. patronymic form from Agamemnon, which is used
40. Š 6. ) His armour is described in the Iliad. to designate his son Orestes. (Hom. Od. i. 30;
(xi. 19, &c. )
Juv. viii. 215. )
(L. S. ]
The remaining part of the story of Agamemnon · AGANI'CÉ or AGLAONI'CE ('Ayavian or
is related in the Odyssey, and by several later 'Aylaovisn), daughter of Hegetor, a Thessalian,
writers. At the taking of 'Troy he received Cas- who by her knowledge of Astronomy could foretell
sundra, the daughter of Priam, as his prize (od. when the moon would disappear, and imposed
xi. 421 ; Dict. Cret. v. 13), by whom, according upon credulous women, by saying that she could
to a tradition in Pausanias (ii
. 16. 85), he had two draw down the moon. (Plut. de off. Conjug. p. 145,
sons, Teledamus and Pelops. On his return home de Defect. Orac. p. 417. ).
[L. S. ]
he was twice driven out of his course by storms, • AGANIPPE ("Ayavima). 1. A nymph of
but at last landed in Argolis, in the dominion of the well of the same name at the foot of Mount
Aegisthus, who had seduced Clytemnestra during Helicon, in Boeotia, which was considered sacred
the absence of her husband. He invited Agamem- to the Muses, and believed to have the power of
non on his arrival to a repast, and had him and his inspiring those who drank of it. The nymph is
companions treacherously murdered during the called a daughter of the river-god Permessus.
feast (Od. iii.
263) (AEGISTHUS), and Clytemnes (Paus. ix. 29. § 3; Virg. Eclog. x. 12. ) The
tra on the same occasion murdered Cassandra. Muses are sometimes called Aganippides.
(Od. xi. 400, &c. 422, xxiv. 96, &c. ) Odysseus 2. The wife of Acrisius, and according to some
met the shade of Agamemnon in the lower world. accounts the mother of Danaë, although the latter
(Od. xi. 387, xxiv. 20. ) Menelaus erected a is more commonly called a daughter of Eurydice.
monument in honour of his brother on the river (Hygin. Fub. 63; Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. iv.
Aegyptus. (Od. iv. 584. ) Pausanias (ü. 16. & 1091. )
(L. S. ]
5) states, that in his time a monument of Agamem- AGANIPPIS, is used by Ovid (Fast
. v. 7) as
non was still extant at Mycenae. The tragic an epithet of Hippocrene; its meaning however is
poets have variously modified the story of the not quite clear. It is derived from Agnippe, the
murder of Agamemnon. Aeschylus (Agam. 1492, well or nymph, and as Aganippides is used to de
&c. ) makes Clytemnestra alone murder Agamem- signate the Muses, Aganippis Hippocrene may
non: she threw a net over him while he was in mean nothing but “ Hippocrene, sacred to the
the bath, and slew him with three strokes. Her Muses. "
[L. S. )
motive is partly her jealousy of Cassandra, and AGAPE'NOR ('Ayanyuwp), a son of Ancaeus,
partly her adulterous life with Aegisthus. Ac and grandson of Lycurgus. He was king of the
cording to Tzetzes (ad Lycophr. 1099), Aegisthus Arcadians, and received sixty ships from Aga-
committed the murder with the assistance of Cly- memnon, in which he led his Arcadians to Troy.
temnestra. Euripides (Or. 26) mentions a gar- (Hom. Il. ü. 609, &c. ; Hygin. Fab. 97. ) He
ment which Clytemnestra threw over him instead also occurs among the suitors of Helen. (Hygin.
of a net, and both Sopbocles (Elect. 530) and Eu- Fab. 81; Apollod. iii. 10. § 8. ) On his return
ripides represent the sacrifice of Iphigeneia as the from Troy be was cast by a storm on the coast of
cause for which she murdered him. After the Cyprus, where he founded the town of Paphus,
death of Agamemnon and Cassandra, their two and in it the famous temple of Aphrodite. (Paus.
sons were murdered upon their tomb by Aegisthus. viii
. 5. & 2, &c. ) He also occurs in the story of
(Paus. ii. 16. & 5. ) According to Pindar (Pyth. HARMONIA. (Apollod. iii. 7. § 5, &c. (L. S. ]
xi. 48) the murder of Agamemnon took place at AGAPEʼTUS ('Agamntós). 1. Metropolitan
Amyclae, in Laconica, and Pausanias (l. c. ) states Bishop of Rhodes, A. D. 457. When the Em-
that the inhabitants of this place disputed with peror Leo wrote to him for the opinion of his
those of Mycenae the possession of the tomb of suffragans and himself on the council of Chalcedon,
Cassandra (Comp. Paus. iii. 19. § 5. ) In later he defended it against Timotheus Aelurus, in a
times statues of Agamemnon were erected in several letter still extant in a Latin translation, Conci-
parts of Greece, and he was worshipped as a hero liorum Nova Collectio à Mansi, vol. vii. p. 580.
at Amyclae and Olympia. (Paus. iii
. 19. § 5, v. 2. St. , born at Rome, was Archdeacon and
25. & 5. ) He was represented on the pedestal of raised to the Holy See a. D. 535.
He was no
the celebrated Rhamnusian Nemesis (i. 33. § 7), sooner consecrated than he took off the anathemas
and his fight with Coon on the chest of Cypselus. pronounced by Pope Boniface II. against his de
(v. 19. & 1. ) He was painted in the Lesche of ceased rival Dioscorus on a false charge of Simony.
Delphi, by Polygnotus. (x. 25. § 2; com- He received an appeal from the Catholics of Con-
pare Plin. H. N. xxxv. 36. $ 5; Quintil
. ii. 13. stantinople when Anthimus, the Monophysite,
Ś 13; Val. Max. viii. 11. $ 6. ) It should be re- was made thcis Bishop by Theodora. (ANTHI
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1
MUS. ) The tear of an invasion of Italy by time Cleisthenes made trial of them in various
Justinian led the Goth Theodatus to oblige S. ways, he gave Agariste to Megacles. From this
Agapetus to go himself to Constantinople, in hope marriage came the Cleisthenes who divided the
that Justinian might be diverted from his purpose. Athenians into ten tribes, and Hippocrates. (Herod.
(See Breviarium S. Liberati, ap. Mansi
, Conciliun, vi. 126-130; comp. Athen. vi. p. 273, b. cong
vol. ix. p. 695. ) As to this last object he could xii. 541, b. c. )
make no impression on the emperor, but he suc- 2. The daughter of the above-mentioned Hip
ceeded in persuading him to depose Anthimus, pocrates, and the grand-daughter of the above
and when Mennas was chosen to succeed him, mentioned Agariste, married Xanthippus and
Agapetus laid his own hands upon him. The became the mother of Pericles. (Herod. vi. 130;
Council and the Synodal (interpreted into Greek) | Plut. Perid. 3. ).
sent by Agapetus relating to these affairs may be AGA'SIAS ('Ayaoias), a Stymphalian of Ar
found ap. Mansi, vol. viii. pp. 869, 921. Com cadia (Xen. Anab. iv. l. § 27), is frequently
plaints were sent him from various quarters against mentioned by Xenophon as a brave and active
ihe Monophysite Acephali ; but he died suddenly officer in the army of the Ten Thousand. (Anot.
A. D. 536, April 22, and they were read in a iv. 7. $ 11. v. 2. $ 15, &c. ) He was wounded
Council held on 2nd May, by Mennas. (Mansi, while fighting against Asidates. (Anab. viii. 8.
ibid. p. 874.
tath. ; Lucret. i. 86. ) The manner in which Aga- which he had lent to the Arcadians. (11. ü. 576,
memnon came to the kingdom of Mycenae, is dif- 612. )
ferently related. From Homer (11. ii. 108; comp. In the tenth year of the siege of Troy-for it is
Paus. ix. 40. 86), it appears as if he had peaceably in this year that the Iliad opens—we find Aga-
succeeded Thyestes, while, according to others memnon involved in a quarrel with Achilles re-
(Aeschyl. Agam. 1605), he expelled Thyestes, and specting the possession of Briseïs, whom Achilles
risurped his throne. After he had become king of was obliged to give up to Agamemnon. Achilles
Mycenae, he rendered Sicyon and its king subjectſ withdrew from the field of battle, and the Greeks
to himself (Paus. Ü. 6. § 4), and became the most were visited by successive disasters. (ACHILLES. )
powerful prince in Greece. A catalogue of his Zeus sent a dream to Agamemnon to persuade him
dominions is given in the Iliad. (ii. 569, &c. ; to lead the Greeks to battle against the Trojans.
comp. Strab. viii. p. 377; Thucyd. i. 9. ) When (N. Ï. 8, &c. ) The king, in order to try the
Homer (Il. ii. 108) attributes to Agamemnon the Greeks, commanded them to return home, with
sovereignty over all Argos, the name Argos here which they readily complied, until their courage
signifies Peloponnessus, or the greater part of it, was revived by Odysseus, who persuaded them to
for the city of Argos was governed by Diomedes. prepare for battle. (12. q. 55, &c. ) After a single
(Il. ü. 559, &c. ) Strabo (l. c. ) has also shewn combat between Paris and Menelaus, a battle
that the name Argos is sometimes used by the tra- followed, in which Agamemnon killed several of
gic poets as synonymous with Mycenae.
the Trojans. When Hector challenged the bravest
When Helen, the wife of Menelaus, was carried of the Greeks, Agamemnon offered to fight with
off by Paris, the son of Priam, Agamemnon and him, but in his stead Ajax was chosen by lot.
Menelaus called upon all the Greek chiefs for as- Soon after this another battle took place, in which
sistance against Troy. (Odyss. xxiv. 115. ) The the Greeks were worsted (Il. viii. ), and Agamem-
chiefs met at Argos in the palace of Diomedes, non in despondence advised the Greeks to take to
where Agamemnon was chosen their chief com- flight and return home. (IL ix. 10. ) But he
mander, either in consequence of his superior power was opposed by the other heroes. An attempt to
(Eustath, ad I. ii. 108; Thucyd. i. 9), or because conciliate Achilles failed, and Agamemnon assem-
he had gained the favour of the assembled chiefs bled the chiefs in the night to deliberate about the
by giving them rich presents. (Dictys, Cret. i. 15, measures to be adopted. (I. . , &c. ) Odysseus
16. ) After two years of preparation, the Greek and Diomedes were then sent out as spies, and on
army and fleet assembled in the port of Aulis in the day following the contest with the Trojans was
Boeotia. Agamemnon had previously consulted renewed. Agamemnon himself was again one of
the oracle about the issue of the enterprise, and the bravest, and blew many enemies with his own
the answer given was, that Troy should fall at the hand. At last, however, he was wounded by Coon
time when the most distinguished among the Greeks and obliged to withdraw to his tent. (N. xi. 250,
should quarrel. (Od. viii. 80. ) A similar prophecy &c. ) Hector now advanced victoriously, and Aga-
was derived from a marvellous occurrence which memnon again advised the Greeks to save them-
happened while the Greeks were assembled at selves by flight. (N. xiv. 75, &c. ) But Odysseus
Aulis. Once when a sacrifice was offered under and Diomedes again resisted him, and the latter
the boughs of a tree, a dragon crawled forth from prevailed upon him to return to the battle which was
under it, and devoured a nest on the tree containing going on near the ships. Poseidon also appeared
eight young birds and their mother. Calchas in-
to Agamemnon in the figure of an aged man, and
terpreted the sign to indicate that the Greeks inspired him with new courage. (N. xiv. 125, &c. )
would have to fight against Troy for nine years, The pressing danger of the Greeks at last induced
but that in the tenth the city would fall. (n. ii. Patroclus, the friend of Achilles, to take an
303, &c. ) An account of a different miracle por- energetic part in the battle, and his fall roused
tending the same thing is given by Aeschylus. Achilles to new activity, and led to his reconcilia-
(Agam. 110, &c. ) Another interesting incident tion with Agamemnon. In the games at the
happened while the Greeks were assembled at funeral pyre of Patroclus, Agamemnon gained the
Aulis. Agamemnon, it is said, killed a stag which first prize in throwing the spear. (1. xxiii. 890,
was sacred to Artemis, and in addition provoked &c. )
the anger of the goddess by irreverent words. Agamemnon, although the chief commander of
She in return visited the Greek army with a pes- the Greeks, is not the hero of the Iliad, and in
tilence, and produced a perfect calm, so that the chivalrous spirit, bravery, and character, altogether
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AGAMEMNON.
AGAPETUS.
inferior to Achilles. But he nevertheless rises | marked that several Latin poets mention a bastard
above all the Greeks by his dignity, power, and son of Agamemnon, of the name of Halesus, to
majesty (Il. iji. 166, &c. ), and his eyes and head whom the foundation of the town of Falisci or
are likened to those of Zeus, his girdle to that of Alesium is ascribed. (Ov. Fast. iv. 73; Amor.
Ares, and his breast to that of Poseidon. (Il. ii
. ii. 13. 31 ; comp. Serv. ad Aen. vii. 695; Sil.
477, &c. ) Agamemnon is among the Greek Ital. viii. 476. )
heroes what Zeus is among the gods of Olympus. 2. A surname of Zeus, under which te was
This idea appears to have guided the Greek artists, worshipped at Sparta (Lycophr. 335, with the
for in several representations of Agamemnon still Schol. ; Eustath. ad Il. ii. 25. ) Eustathius thinks
extant there is a remarkable resemblance to the that the god derived this name from the resem-
representations of Zeus. The emblem of his power blance between him and Agamemnon ; while
and majesty in Homer is a sceptre, the work of others believe that it is a mere epithet signifying
llephaestus, which Zeus had once given to Hermes, the Eternal, from ayar and uévwv. (L. S. )
and Hermes to Pelops, from whom it descended AGAMEMNONIDES (Αγαμεμνονίδης), a
to Agamemnon. (1. ii. 100, &c. ; comp. Paus. ix. patronymic form from Agamemnon, which is used
40. Š 6. ) His armour is described in the Iliad. to designate his son Orestes. (Hom. Od. i. 30;
(xi. 19, &c. )
Juv. viii. 215. )
(L. S. ]
The remaining part of the story of Agamemnon · AGANI'CÉ or AGLAONI'CE ('Ayavian or
is related in the Odyssey, and by several later 'Aylaovisn), daughter of Hegetor, a Thessalian,
writers. At the taking of 'Troy he received Cas- who by her knowledge of Astronomy could foretell
sundra, the daughter of Priam, as his prize (od. when the moon would disappear, and imposed
xi. 421 ; Dict. Cret. v. 13), by whom, according upon credulous women, by saying that she could
to a tradition in Pausanias (ii
. 16. 85), he had two draw down the moon. (Plut. de off. Conjug. p. 145,
sons, Teledamus and Pelops. On his return home de Defect. Orac. p. 417. ).
[L. S. ]
he was twice driven out of his course by storms, • AGANIPPE ("Ayavima). 1. A nymph of
but at last landed in Argolis, in the dominion of the well of the same name at the foot of Mount
Aegisthus, who had seduced Clytemnestra during Helicon, in Boeotia, which was considered sacred
the absence of her husband. He invited Agamem- to the Muses, and believed to have the power of
non on his arrival to a repast, and had him and his inspiring those who drank of it. The nymph is
companions treacherously murdered during the called a daughter of the river-god Permessus.
feast (Od. iii.
263) (AEGISTHUS), and Clytemnes (Paus. ix. 29. § 3; Virg. Eclog. x. 12. ) The
tra on the same occasion murdered Cassandra. Muses are sometimes called Aganippides.
(Od. xi. 400, &c. 422, xxiv. 96, &c. ) Odysseus 2. The wife of Acrisius, and according to some
met the shade of Agamemnon in the lower world. accounts the mother of Danaë, although the latter
(Od. xi. 387, xxiv. 20. ) Menelaus erected a is more commonly called a daughter of Eurydice.
monument in honour of his brother on the river (Hygin. Fub. 63; Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. iv.
Aegyptus. (Od. iv. 584. ) Pausanias (ü. 16. & 1091. )
(L. S. ]
5) states, that in his time a monument of Agamem- AGANIPPIS, is used by Ovid (Fast
. v. 7) as
non was still extant at Mycenae. The tragic an epithet of Hippocrene; its meaning however is
poets have variously modified the story of the not quite clear. It is derived from Agnippe, the
murder of Agamemnon. Aeschylus (Agam. 1492, well or nymph, and as Aganippides is used to de
&c. ) makes Clytemnestra alone murder Agamem- signate the Muses, Aganippis Hippocrene may
non: she threw a net over him while he was in mean nothing but “ Hippocrene, sacred to the
the bath, and slew him with three strokes. Her Muses. "
[L. S. )
motive is partly her jealousy of Cassandra, and AGAPE'NOR ('Ayanyuwp), a son of Ancaeus,
partly her adulterous life with Aegisthus. Ac and grandson of Lycurgus. He was king of the
cording to Tzetzes (ad Lycophr. 1099), Aegisthus Arcadians, and received sixty ships from Aga-
committed the murder with the assistance of Cly- memnon, in which he led his Arcadians to Troy.
temnestra. Euripides (Or. 26) mentions a gar- (Hom. Il. ü. 609, &c. ; Hygin. Fab. 97. ) He
ment which Clytemnestra threw over him instead also occurs among the suitors of Helen. (Hygin.
of a net, and both Sopbocles (Elect. 530) and Eu- Fab. 81; Apollod. iii. 10. § 8. ) On his return
ripides represent the sacrifice of Iphigeneia as the from Troy be was cast by a storm on the coast of
cause for which she murdered him. After the Cyprus, where he founded the town of Paphus,
death of Agamemnon and Cassandra, their two and in it the famous temple of Aphrodite. (Paus.
sons were murdered upon their tomb by Aegisthus. viii
. 5. & 2, &c. ) He also occurs in the story of
(Paus. ii. 16. & 5. ) According to Pindar (Pyth. HARMONIA. (Apollod. iii. 7. § 5, &c. (L. S. ]
xi. 48) the murder of Agamemnon took place at AGAPEʼTUS ('Agamntós). 1. Metropolitan
Amyclae, in Laconica, and Pausanias (l. c. ) states Bishop of Rhodes, A. D. 457. When the Em-
that the inhabitants of this place disputed with peror Leo wrote to him for the opinion of his
those of Mycenae the possession of the tomb of suffragans and himself on the council of Chalcedon,
Cassandra (Comp. Paus. iii. 19. § 5. ) In later he defended it against Timotheus Aelurus, in a
times statues of Agamemnon were erected in several letter still extant in a Latin translation, Conci-
parts of Greece, and he was worshipped as a hero liorum Nova Collectio à Mansi, vol. vii. p. 580.
at Amyclae and Olympia. (Paus. iii
. 19. § 5, v. 2. St. , born at Rome, was Archdeacon and
25. & 5. ) He was represented on the pedestal of raised to the Holy See a. D. 535.
He was no
the celebrated Rhamnusian Nemesis (i. 33. § 7), sooner consecrated than he took off the anathemas
and his fight with Coon on the chest of Cypselus. pronounced by Pope Boniface II. against his de
(v. 19. & 1. ) He was painted in the Lesche of ceased rival Dioscorus on a false charge of Simony.
Delphi, by Polygnotus. (x. 25. § 2; com- He received an appeal from the Catholics of Con-
pare Plin. H. N. xxxv. 36. $ 5; Quintil
. ii. 13. stantinople when Anthimus, the Monophysite,
Ś 13; Val. Max. viii. 11. $ 6. ) It should be re- was made thcis Bishop by Theodora. (ANTHI
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AGATHAGETUS.
1
MUS. ) The tear of an invasion of Italy by time Cleisthenes made trial of them in various
Justinian led the Goth Theodatus to oblige S. ways, he gave Agariste to Megacles. From this
Agapetus to go himself to Constantinople, in hope marriage came the Cleisthenes who divided the
that Justinian might be diverted from his purpose. Athenians into ten tribes, and Hippocrates. (Herod.
(See Breviarium S. Liberati, ap. Mansi
, Conciliun, vi. 126-130; comp. Athen. vi. p. 273, b. cong
vol. ix. p. 695. ) As to this last object he could xii. 541, b. c. )
make no impression on the emperor, but he suc- 2. The daughter of the above-mentioned Hip
ceeded in persuading him to depose Anthimus, pocrates, and the grand-daughter of the above
and when Mennas was chosen to succeed him, mentioned Agariste, married Xanthippus and
Agapetus laid his own hands upon him. The became the mother of Pericles. (Herod. vi. 130;
Council and the Synodal (interpreted into Greek) | Plut. Perid. 3. ).
sent by Agapetus relating to these affairs may be AGA'SIAS ('Ayaoias), a Stymphalian of Ar
found ap. Mansi, vol. viii. pp. 869, 921. Com cadia (Xen. Anab. iv. l. § 27), is frequently
plaints were sent him from various quarters against mentioned by Xenophon as a brave and active
ihe Monophysite Acephali ; but he died suddenly officer in the army of the Ten Thousand. (Anot.
A. D. 536, April 22, and they were read in a iv. 7. $ 11. v. 2. $ 15, &c. ) He was wounded
Council held on 2nd May, by Mennas. (Mansi, while fighting against Asidates. (Anab. viii. 8.
ibid. p. 874.
