or Agragas, in Ancient Geography, so called by the Greeks, and sometimes by the Romans, but more generally Agrigentum by the latter; a town of Sicily. In Greek medals the inhabitants are called Akpitantinoi, and Agrigentini by Cicero. The town stood upon a mountain, at the confluence of the Agragias and Hypsa, near the port called Epipogos by Ptolemy, but Epipogos, or the Dock, by Strabo; and in the time of the latter, scarce a trace of all that side remained. In the year before Christ 848, the people of Gela built Agragas, 108 years after building their own city. It took its name from the river running by it; and being but two miles from the sea, enjoyed the conveniences of a sea port. It was a place of great strength, standing on the top of a very steep rock, and washed on the south side by the river Agragas, now called Fiume di Gerenti, and on the south-west by the Hypsa, with a citadel to the south-east, externally surrounded by a deep gulf, which made it inaccessible but on the side next the town. It was famous for the tyrant Phalaris and his brazen bull. The Agrigentines were a people luxurious in their tables, and magnificent in their dwellings; of whom Empedocles, in Diogenes Laertius, says, that they lived to-day as if they were to die tomorrow, and built as if they were to live forever. The country round the city was laid out in vine and olive yards, in the produce of which they carried on a great and profitable commerce with Carthage. E. Long. 13. 30. N. Lat. 37. 20.