in the public games of the ancients, a term used indifferently for any contest or dispute, whether respecting bodily exercises, or accomplishments of the mind. Thus poets, musicians, &c. had their agonés, as well as the athlete. It was also used for one of the ministers employed in the heathen sacrifices, whose business it was to strike the victim.

in Roman antiquity, a place near the Tiber, where the curule games were celebrated, otherwise called circus Flammineus.

among physicians. See AGONY.

AGONALIS, in Roman antiquity. See SALII.