AGATHIAS, or, as he calls himself in his epigrams, AGATHIUS, distinguished by the title of Scholasticus, a Greek
historian in the sixth century, in the reign of Justinian. He was born at Myrina, a colony of the ancient Æolians, in Asia the Less, at the mouth of the river Phyticus. He was an advocate at Constantinople. Though he had a taste for poetry, he was yet more famous for his history, which begins with the 26th year of Justinian's reign, where Procopius ends. It was printed in Greek and Latin by Vulcanius, at Leyden, 1594, in 4to. The best edition is that of Niebuhr, Bonn, 1828.