Agrimony.** See Botany Index.

**Hemp Agrimony.** See Eupatorium, Botany Index.

**Water Hemp Agrimony.** See Bidens, Botany Index.

**AGRIONIA,** in Grecian Antiquity, festivals annually celebrated by the Boeotians in honour of Bacchus. At these festivals, the women pretended to search after Bacchus as a fugitive; and, after some time, gave over their inquiry, saying, that he had fled to the Muses, and was concealed among them.

**AGRIOPHAGI,** in Antiquity, a name given to those who fed on wild beasts. The word is Greek, compounded of ἀγελος, "wild," "savage," and φαγων, "I eat." The name is given, by ancient writers, to certain people, real or fabulous, said to have fed altogether on lions or panthers. Pliny and Solinus speak of Agriophagi in Ethiopia, and Ptolemy of others in India on this side the Ganges.