Agarista, daughter of Clisthenes, was courted by all the princes of Greece. She married Megacles. Ælian, Varia Historia, bk. 12, ch. 24.—Herodotus, bk. 6, ch. 126, &c.——A daughter of Hippocrates, who married Xantippus. She dreamed that she had brought forth a lion, and some time after became mother of Pericles. Plutarch, Pericles.—Herodotus, bk. 6, ch. 131.
Agasĭcles, king of Sparta, was son of Archidamus, and one of the Proclidæ. He used to say that a king ought to govern his subjects as a father governs his children. Pausanias, bk. 3, ch. 7.—Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica.
Agassæ, a city of Thessaly. Livy, bk. 45, ch. 27.
Agasthĕnes, father to Polyxenus, was, as one of Helen’s suitors, concerned in the Trojan war. Homer, Iliad, bk. 2.—Apollodorus, bk. 3, ch. 11.——A son of Augeas, who succeeded as king of Elis. Pausanias, bk. 5, ch. 3.
Agrastrŏphus, a Trojan, wounded by Diomedes. Homer, Iliad, bk. 11, li. 338.
Agasthus, an archon of Athens.
Agăsus, a harbour on the coast of Apulia. Pliny, bk. 3, ch. 11.
Agătha, a town of France near Agde, in Languedoc. Mela, bk. 2, ch. 5.
Agatharchĭdas, a general of Corinth in the Peloponnesian war. Thucydides, bk. 2, ch. 83.——A Samian philosopher and historian, who wrote a treatise on stones, and a history of Persia and Phœnice, besides an account of the Red sea, of Europe and Asia. Some make him a native of Cnidus, and add that he flourished about 177 B.C. Josephus, Against Apion.
Agatharchus, an officer in the Syracusan fleet. Thucydides, bk. 7, ch. 27.——A painter in the age of Zeuxis. Plutarch, Pericles.