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<b class="b2">Of Agrigentum</b>, adj.: Ἀκραγαντῖνος.
<b class="b2">Of Agrigentum</b>, adj.: Ἀκραγαντῖνος.
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|lshtext=<b>Agrĭgentum</b>: i, n.,<br /><b>I</b> one of the largest and richest cities on the [[south]] [[coast]] of Sicily, [[near]] Cape [[Pachynum]], acc. to the Greek (Ἀκράγας) [[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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