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Agathocles

Agathocles · m

A king of Sicily

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Where it lives

Menaechmi 1 · 1.05/10k
Mostellaria 1 · 1.04/10k
De Divinatione 1 · 0.36/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 2 · 0.27/10k
Naturalis Historia 9 · 0.23/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1 · 0.13/10k
In C. Verrem 1 · 0.1/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

ăgăthō^cles — Lewis & Short

ăgăthō^cles, is, m., = *)agaqoklh=s.

I A king of Sicily, son of a potter, celebrated for his war with the Carthaginians for the possession of the island; cf. Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 55; Val. Max. 7, 4, 1 ext.; and esp. Just. 22, 1 sq.—Hence, ăgăthō^clēus, a, um, adj., = *)agaqo/kleios, of or pertaining to King Agathocles: tropaea, Sil. 14, 652.—

II The author of a history of Cyzicus, Cic. Div. 1, 24.

Where it came from

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