. Universal historical dictionary, or, Explanation of the names of persons and places in the departments of Biblical, political, and ecclesiastical history, mythology, heraldry, biography, bibliography, geography, and numismatics . filOV Tt iraTipiov Atorov, opQoirohtvKapdvres oi iruWd Ovpiplipov ixov oUnua no ?/ They became afterwards successively subject to the Syracu-sans, Carthaginians, and Romans. The name of this towncommonly written in Latin Agrigentum; but Virgil,and after him, Silius, call it Mn. , v. 703. Arduui ande Agragat ostendii maxime longMotnia ; magnanimum q
. Universal historical dictionary, or, Explanation of the names of persons and places in the departments of Biblical, political, and ecclesiastical history, mythology, heraldry, biography, bibliography, geography, and numismatics . filOV Tt iraTipiov Atorov, opQoirohtvKapdvres oi iruWd Ovpiplipov ixov oUnua no ?/ They became afterwards successively subject to the Syracu-sans, Carthaginians, and Romans. The name of this towncommonly written in Latin Agrigentum; but Virgil,and after him, Silius, call it Mn. , v. 703. Arduui ande Agragat ostendii maxime longMotnia ; magnanimum quondam generator eouorum. 11 is now known by the name of Girgenli, where manynoble ruins of its temples and other edifices are still to be [Tide Girgentn Thucyd. 1. (>, c. V; Poh/b. ;Diodor. 1. 13 ; Cic. in Verr. Art. \ ; Lie. 1. 25, C. 23 ; Strab. I. (i ; Ovid. Fast. 1. 4; Ilin. 1. 3, C. 8 ; Sulin. c. 11 ; 3, c. (Numis.) the eagle, the emblem of Jupiter, and the cancer marinus, were adopted as the symbols of Agri- B ntum, to denote their power and maritime situation. Theeagle is sometimes represented in the act of pouncing on aBan, as in fig. 1, oron a dove, as in fig. 2 ; but more frc- Fig. AGR of fig. 3 the cancer with a water serpent underneath de-vouring it. The attitudes of these animals are intended, inall probability, to denote their power or successes over theirenemies, particularly the Carthaginians. One of their me- Fig. 3. Fig. I.
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