a celebrated historian, under Julius Caesar and Augustus, was thus named from his being a native of Agrigentum in Sicily. He spent 50 years in composing his Bibliotheca Historica; and travelled into the places he describes, for perfect information. This important work, which he composed in Greek, contained 40 books, of which there are only 15 remaining. The style is clear and neat, and very suitable to history. The best edition is that of Amsterdam, 1745, in two volumes, folio.