Dictionary of universal biography; being the lives of eminent persons of all times / [Samuel Orchart Beeton].

  • Samuel Orchart Beeton
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1870
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    Aganduru thm'i“‘Cm t0 '“ovor’tLk'faJLfKS’gto m &e,mnon estabHsIacd himself at My- SS®' Menelaus succeeded his father-in-law forces levied r4memnonh+ltr0°PS b?eff dctaincd at Aulis, ii0amemnon there sacrificed his daughter in appease Diana. During the Troian war A i witfteh-n With great valour> butAfiis E ,on account of the amiable xuseis, whom he took from Achilles hv fm-eo rKueVeiy p/ejudi.cial to the cause of the Greeks’ C jlemncstra, with her adulterer iEgisthus ore pared to murder Agamemnon on hL return nd as he came from the bath, in order to cm’ MmTt Tn T] fect her P-POSC, She gave Sethe^ WhikA -eeVei.S of wWch were sewed lUn-ftl+i 'Vlul&t tyymg to put it on, she brou lit a- ihc ground with the stroke of a hatchet and fEgisthus seconded her blows His death was revenged by his son Orestes th livedK?^ Agapetus I., aff-a-pe'-tus, a Do man pontiff Who opposed the attempts of Justinian toPinvade the rights of the Church. He was tn fh! pontificate in 635, and died the year E. n at J%ZZVS,IL’ a,man of great reputation for 946.^ m 956?haraCtCr' Hc received thc tiara in Agapetus, a deacon of Constantinople who t wrotea letter to Justinian on the dirties of a Chnstum prmce. Flourished in the 6th cen- Agapius, a-gai’-pe-us, a Greek monk who vTooW ^ tP?tls®, on the Salvation of a Sinner, nourished in the 17th century.—His treatise ASrPZtCf h m°dc;'n Greek, at Venice, 164? Agakp, Arthur, ag'-ard, an English anticiuarv who held the office of deputy chamberlain in the Lxchequer during a period of forty-five years In conjunction with Sir Robert Cotton and other eminent men, lie formed a society of antiquaries u. at Foston, Derbyshire, 1540; buried in West- minster Abbey, 1615.—He wrote a treatise to in^thfcotton°WhSday b°0iC’ v,’hich was deposited m the Cotton Library, and several tracts of his lfearnetl(1Uailan 8ubj-ects wer0 Published by painter!’ “ FrCndl P°ltraifc „ ,/1GA*IA1s> S-gaise-as, a sculptor of Ephesus ^ebrated for his admirable statue of the Gla- Agasiclzs, a-gas'-i-clccs, a king of Sparta who used to say “ A king ought to govern liis sub- jects as a lather ins family.’’ Agassiz Louie, a-gds’-te, a distinguished r ranch naturalist, for many years professor of natural history at Neufchatcl. In 1846 he went to America, and, in 1852, became professor of fflf ,Verat°my inthe Medical College at Chailcston. As a naturalist his fame dates from Agathon £ “e d ‘JX large senes ol important phenomena, and has in been ffidPt?in6stl+D-8’ developed the views he has oeen to entertain upon them. He is an on holder of the doctrine which teaches the suc- befn f?.tl0n $f h]gher ordcrs of organized thS?p uthe surface of the earth, and believes at the human race has had, in its several dis- tinet species, separate stocks of originality both as to time and space. As an author his contri- butions to natural history have been extensive of dtl1ite“aDffiHneimar,k.ed that he was the founded ot the Dibhographia Zoologiea et Geologica.” a great work, which has been edited by the late Mr. Strickland and Sir W. Jardine hart On the death of the late Professor Edward Forbes he was offered the chair of natural liistory in’ GjLuhur.gh’ but he declined it. b. in the parish SSS Se» “s« s»:>- Agathangelus, ai-galh-uri-je-lus, an liis- ?“an_Tf ^.m?uia who recorded the introdue- ?f, Christianity into his native country I lourislied in the 11th century. J * Cnirfn^T wh^CIDEf’ (‘s'-aih-ar-se-decs, a native of Cmdos, who wrote m Greek a liistory of the suc- cesses of Alexander. Flourished about 180 b.c. wifrw “9 'dth:ark'-us> a Samian painter’ t0 paint scenes for ins stage. Flounshed 480 b.c. thnrGnfHo °rtho?.is> ag-a-the'-mer, the au- thor of a Compendium of Geography ” in fofdffra m3 W3S Publishcd hy Hudson, at Ox- Agathias, a-gai'-ihe-as, a Greek historian five bool-a uf7 °fitbe r<?ign of'Justinian in Bve books _ He was also a writer of epigrams some of which are to be found in the “ Antlio- jogia. Flourished in the 6th centurv.—Ui3 history was published in Paris in 1660 Agathocles, ug-uth'-o-clees. There were many of this name, the most remarkable of whom was a licentious and ambitious man he son ot a potter, who, entering the Sicilian army rose to the greatest honours, and made hirnsdt master of Syracuse. He reduced all Sicily under his power; but being defeated at the Carthaginians, he carried the war liitp Africa, where, for four years, he extended Bis conquests over his enemy. He afterwards passed into Italy, and made himself master of Uotona d. in his 72nd year, b.c. 2S9, after a ! C1g'\,of 28 years of great prosperity mingled with the deepest adversity. ° AGATtiODvEMOx- ug'-a-tho-de'-mon, a map- maker of Alexandria, and the supposed con- sliuctor of the maps found in the oldest manu- scripts ot the Geography of Claudius Ptole- mreus. It cannot be determined with accuracy when he flourished. * , A?at“°^> «'*ga-thon, a pope, who despatched legates to the council called at Constantinople to condemn the Eutycliians, a sect who denied the human nature of Christ, and asserted that his body was only an aerial vehicle. In 678 he wasyficeted to the papal chair, b, at Palermoj