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Agades (ä'ga-dez). The capital of the sultanate of Asben (or Air), in Africa, about lat. 17° N., long. 7° 45′ E. Population, about 7,000. Agag (a'gag). [Heb.; of uncertain meaning.] 1. An A male kite king, spared by Saul, contrary to his vow, and slain by order of Samuel. 1 Sam. xv.-2. A character in Dryden's "Absalom and Achitophel," a satire of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey, a magistrate who received the declaration of Titus Oates. He was afterward found in a ditch dead and mutilated, hence the allusion (see def. 1). Agamemnon (ag-a-mem'non). [Gr. Ἀγαμέμνων .] 1. In Greek legendary history, the son of Atreus, king of Mycene, and the most powerful ruler in Greece. He led the Greek expedition against Troy, and on his return was slain, according to Homer, by Ægisthus, according to Æschylus, by his wife Clytemnestra, who was incited to the deed partly by jealousy of Cas sandra, and partly through fear on account of her adultery with Ægisthus. 2. The greatest of the tragedies of Æschylus. The scene is laid in Argos, in the palace of Agamemnon, at the time of the king's return from the capture of Troy the catastrophe is the murder (behind the scenes) of Agamemnon and Cas sandra (whom he has brought captive with him) by the queen Clytemnestra urged on by her paramour Ægisthus. Tragedies with this subject have been written also by Seneca, Alfieri, and Lemercier. Agamenticus (ag-a-men'ti-kus), Mount. A hill, 673 feet high, in York County, near the southwestern extremity of the State of Maine. The locality was the site of one of the earliest English colonies in Maine, led by Gorges and others, in 1631. Agaña (ä-gä'nyä). The principal place in the Ladrones, Pacific Ocean, situated on the island of Guahan. Aganippe (ag-a-nip'ē). [Gr. Άγανίππη .] In ancient geography, a fountain near Mount Helicon, in Bœotia, Greece, sacred to the Muses. It was believed to inspire those who drank of it, and it gave the name " Aganippides" to the Muses. See Helicon . Agape (ag'a-pē). [Gr. ἀγάπη , love.] In Spenser's "Faerie Queene," a fay, the mother of three knights born at a birth, for whom she obtained the gift that if one were killed his strength should pa into the remaining brothers or brother. Agapetus (ag-a-pē'tus) I. [Gr. Άγαπητός , beloved.] Pope from June, 535, to April, 536, son of Gordianus, a Roman priest. He went to Constantinople in 536, and there deposed Anthimus the Eutychian, patriarch of Constantinople. The Roman Church celebrates his festival Sept. 20. Agapetus II. Pope from 946 to 955, a Roman by birth. Agapida (ä-gä-ре'тна), Fray Antonio. The fictitious writer to whom Washington Irving originally attributed the authorship of the "Conquest of Granada." Agard, or Agarde (a-gärd'), Arthur. Born at Foston, Derby shire, 1540: died at London, Aug. 22, 1615. An English antiquary, clerk in the Exchequer, and (1603) deputy chamberlain. He prepared catalogues of state papers, compiled a list of all the leagues, treaties of peace, "intercourses," and marriages arranged between England and other countries down to end of the 16th century, and wrote a Latin treatise on the Doomsday Book. He bequeathed his numerous MSS. partly to the Exchequer and partly to his friend Robert Cotton. Most of them are now in the British Museum. mer Agardh (ä'gärd), Jakob Georg. Born at Lund, Sweden, 1813: died there 1901. A Swedish naturalist, son of K. A. Agardh, profe or of botany at Lund: author of "Species, Genera, et Ordines Algarum," "The or i a System at is Natural is Plant arum" (1858), etc. Agardh, Karl Adolf. Born at Bastad, Sweden, Jan. 23, 1785: died at Carlstad, Sweden, Jan. 28, 1859. A noted Swedish naturalist and political economist, profe or of botany and economics at the University of Lund 1812, and bishop of Carlstad 1834. His most important scientific works are "System a Algarum" (1824), “Icones Algarum Europæarum" (1828-35), "Lärob ok i Botanik" (1830-32). Agasias (a-gas'i-as). [Gr. Aγασίας .] A sculptor of Ephesus. According to the inscription on the statue he was the sculptor of the so-called Borghese Gladiator (which see) in the Louvre. This inscription is in late Greek characters which place the work at about the last century of the Roman republic. Aga iz (ag'a-si; F. pron.ä-gä-sē ́), Alexander. Born at Neuchâtel, Switzerland, Dec. 17, 1835. An American zoölogist and geologist, son of J. L. R. Aga iz, director and curator of the Museum of Comparative Zoology of Harvard University, Cambridge, Ma ., 1874-98. Aga iz, Jean Louis Rodolphe. Born at Motier, canton of Fribourg, Switzerland, May 28, 1807: died at Cambridge, Ma ., Dec. 14, 1873. A celebrated Swi -American naturalist, especially noted as a geologist (researches on