Agrotĕra

, an anniversary sacrifice of goats offered to Diana at Athens. It was instituted by Call i mach us the Polemarch, who vowed to sacrifice to the godde so many goats as there might be enemies killed in a battle which he was going to fight against the troops of Darius, who had invaded Attica. The quantity of the slain was so great, that a sufficient number of goats could not be procured; therefore they were limited to 500 every year, till they equalled the number of Persians slain in battle.――A temple of Ægira in Peloponnesus, erected to the godde under this name. Pausanias , bk. 7 , ch. 26 .