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  • But the Dorians of Crete seem to have commended the abuse to Athens and Sparta and subsequently imported it into Tarentum, Agrigentum and other colonies.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • And so the year drew to its close: a year signalled further by an invasion of Sicily by the Carthaginians, with one hundred and twenty ships of war and a land force of one hundred and twenty thousand men, which resulted in the capture of Agrigentum.

    Hellenica 2007

  • “However, Maecenas, I want you back from Agrigentum in a tearing hurry.”

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • He landed in Lilybaeum and Agrigentum on time, disembarked twelve legions, and struck both north and east across the mountains, aiming for Messana.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • Agrigentum, which was neutral, united with the Syracusans against the Athenians.

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

  • Syracusan, to the tyranny of Syracuse; an incident itself preceded by a victory gained over the Carthaginians by the Syracusans; the reduction of Agrigentum through famine by the Carthaginians themselves; and the exodus of the Sicilian Greeks from that city.

    Hellenica 2007

  • Agrigentum, the fairest towns in Sicily, which had sometimes

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Agrigentum, then in a state of revolution, that he might win over the place if he could.

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

  • Agrigentum, who, when Perillus made a brazen bull in which to kill criminals, placed him in it to try its effects.

    Religio Medici 2007

  • Sicanus had not succeeded in his design upon Agrigentum; for while he was at

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

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