Agathŏcles

, a lascivious and ignoble youth, son of a potter, who, by entering in the Sicilian army, arrived to the greatest honours, and made himself master of Syracuse. He reduced all Sicily under his power, but being defeated at Himera by the Cart hag in i ans, he carried the war into Africa, where, for four years, he extended his conquests over his enemies. He afterwards pa ed into Italy, and made himself master of Croton a. He died in his 72nd year, B.C. 289, after a reign of 28 years of mingled prosperity and adversity. Plutarch , Apophthegm at a Laconic a .— Justin , bks. 22 & 23.— Polybius , bk. 15 .— Diodorus , bk. 18 , . ――A son of Lysimachus, taken prisoner by the Getæ. He was ransomed, and married Lysandra daughter of Ptolemy Lagus. His father, in his old age, married Arsinoe the sister of Lysandra. After her husband’s death, Arsinoe, fearful for her children, attempted to murder Agathocles. Some say that she fell in love with him, and killed him because he slighted her. When Agathocles was dead, 283 B.C., Lysandra fled to Seleucus. Strabo , bk. 13 .— Plutarch , Pyrrhus & Demetrius .— Pausanias , bk. 1 , chs. 9 & 10.――A Grecian historian of Babylon, who wrote an account of Cyzicus. Cicero , de Div in at i one , bk. 1 , ch. 24 .――A Chian who wrote on husbandry. Varro. ――A Samian writer.――A physician.――An A then i an archon.