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Agrigentum

Agrigentum · n

one of the largest and richest cities on the south coast of Sicily

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Agrĭgentum — Lewis & Short

Agrĭgentum, i, n.,

I one of the largest and richest cities on the south coast of Sicily, near Cape Pachynum, acc. to the Greek (*)akra/gas) sometimes called Acragas or Agragas, now Girgenti.—Here was the temple of Juno Lucina, so renowned in antiquity, whose ruins are still to be seen: oppidum Acragas, quod Agrigentum nostri dixere, Plin. 3, 8, 14, § 89: alia judicia Lilybaei, alia Agrigenti restituta sunt, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 26.—Hence, Agrĭgentīnus, a, um, adj., of or from Agrigentum: sal, Plin. 31, 7, 41, § 85.—Subst.: Agrĭgentīni, ōrum, m., the inhabitants of Agrigentum, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 50.

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