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Ăgăthō̆cles, is, m., = Ἀγαθοκλῆς.

  1. 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, Ăgăthō̆clēus, a, um, adj., = Ἀγαθόκλειος, of or pertaining to King Agathocles: tropaea, Sil. 14, 652.
  2. II. The author of a history of Cyzicus, Cic. Div. 1, 24.

† ăgăthŏdaemon, ŏnis, m., = ἀγαθοδαίμων (good genius), a kind of serpent in Egypt to which healing power was ascribed, Coluber Aesculapii, Linn.; Lampr. Heliog. 28.

Ăgăthyrna, ae, f., = Ἀγάθυρνον, Strab., a town on the northern coast of Sicily, between Tyndaris and Calacta, Liv. 26, 40; 27, 12; Sil. 14, 259; Mel. 2, 5.

Ăgăthyrsi, ōrum, m., = Ἀγάθυρσοι, a Scythian people (in what is now Transylvania, and the Bannat of Temeswar) who commonly painted their faces and limbs; hence Vergil: picti Agathyrsi, A. 4, 146; cf. Plin. 4, 12, 26; and Mel. 2, 1.