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AGATHYRNA

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or AGATHYRNUM, AGATHYRSA, or AGATHYRSUM, in Ancient Geography, a town of Sicily; now St Marco; as old as the war of Troy, being built by Agathyrnus, son of Æolus, on an eminence. The gentilicious name is Agathyrnaeus; or, according to the Roman idiom, Agathyrnensis.