(εγγέω, I congregate), in Grecian Antiquity, a kind of strolling impostors, who went about the country to pick up money, by telling fortunes at rich men's doors; pretending to cure diseases by charms, sacrifices, and other religious mysteries; also to expiate the crimes of their deceased ancestors, by virtue of certain odours and fumigations; to torment their enemies, by the use of magical verses, and the like. The Agyrtae corresponded to the Armeatores of the Latins, and to our modern gypsies.