[Ag`athon], an Athenian tragic poet, a rival of Euripides (447-400 B.C.).
[Ag`athon, St.], pope from 676 to 682.
[Ag`de] (6), a French seaport on the Hérault, 3 m. from the Mediterranean.
[A`gen] (21), a town on the Garonne, 84 m. above Bordeaux.
[Ages], in the Greek mythology four—the Golden, self-sufficient; the Silver, self-indulgent; the Brazen, warlike; and the Iron, violent; together with the Heroic, nobly aspirant, between the third and fourth. In archeology, three—the Stone Age, the Bronze, and the Iron. In history, the Middle and Dark, between the Ancient and the Modern. In Fichte, five—of Instinct, of Law, of Rebellion, of Rationality, of Conformity to Reason. In Shakespeare, seven—Infancy, Childhood, Boyhood, Adolescence, Manhood, Age, Old Age.
[Agesan`der], a sculptor of Rhodes of the first century, who wrought at the famous group of the Laocoon.
[Agesila`us], a Spartan king, victorious over the Persians in Asia and over the allied Thebans and Athenians at Coronea, but defeated by Epaminondas at Mantinea after a campaign in Egypt; d. 360 B.C., aged 84.
[Aggas, Ralph], a surveyor and engraver of the 16th century, who first drew a plan of London as well as of Oxford and Cambridge.
[Agglutinate languages], languages composed of parts which are words glued together, so to speak, as cowherd.
[Agincourt`], a small village in Pas-de-Calais, where Henry V. in a bloody battle defeated the French, Oct. 25, 1415.