. 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 . 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. quently on a hare, as in fig. :; ; on the obverse of fig. 1 isthe cancel alone, with the inscription of the town
. 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 . 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. quently on a hare, as in fig. :; ; on the obverse of fig. 1 isthe cancel alone, with the inscription of the town ; on thatof fig. 2 the cancer with two dolphins underneath ; on that dais bears on the obverse, as in fig. 4, two eagles standingon a bare, one with its head erect, and the other in the actof attacking it ; on the reverse a man in a chariot and four,whom the goddess Victoria is flying towards with a tri-umphal crown, to commemorate a victory obtained by Gelothe tyrant of Syracuse over the Carthaginians, by theassistance of Theron, his father-in-law, and ruler of Agri-gentum. The inhabitants of this city honoured on theirmedals Jupiter, Apollo, Minerva, Hercules, and /Escula-pius ; but more particularly Ceres and Proserpine, whomthey commonly represented crowned with ears of corn, todenote the fertility of the island. They likewise repre-sented their river Agragas under the form of a youth, whomthey worshipped as the son of Jupiter, by Asterope, thedaughter of Oceanus. The i
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