place
Agrigentum
also: Akragas, Agrigento
Sicilian city on the south coast; site of the temple of Hercules whose statue Verres tried to remove in In Verrem II.4.
Reading notes
- Tusculan Disputations §5.65 the Agrigentine Gate
A gate of Syracuse opening toward Agrigentum (Acragas), beside which lay a great field of tombs. It was here, among the brambles, that Cicero spotted the small column bearing the sphere and cylinder.