Agapetus
the name of two Popes: (1) from June, 535, to April, 536, festival day, Sept. 20; (2) from 946 to 955, a native of Rome.
AGARICUS (ag-are-cus), a genus of plants, the typical one of the fungus or mushroom family, consisting of species which possesses a fleshy pileus or cap, with a number of nearly parallel or radiating plates or gills on its lower side, bearing spores, the whole being supported upon a more or less lengthened stalk. More than 1,000 species are known.
They may be separated into five natural divisions according as the color of the spores is white, pink, ferruginous, purple-brown, or black. There are many sub-genera. Some species are poisonous.
See MUSHROOM.
AGASIAS (ag-as'e-as), of Ephesus, a work. 3, 1911, by which Germany recognized Greek sculptor who flourished about 400 the right of a protectorate over Moroccan B. C. The celebrated statue in the Louvre territory and France ceded to Germany Museum, called "The Gladiator," is his 230,000 square kilometers in the French Kongo, with other economic advantages.
Both parties agreed to secure the consent of other nations to this arrangement. AGAMEMNON (ag-a-mem'non), king of Mycenæ and Argos, son of Atreus and Eriphyle, brother of Menelaus and commander-in-chief of the Grecian army at the siege of Troy. He married Clytemnestra, sister of Helen, who was the wife of Menelaus. The Trojan war arose out of the abduction of Helen by Paris, son of Priam, King of Troy. During the siege of Troy, protracted for 10 years, Agamemnon appears superior to the other chiefs in battle and in council, and maintains, under all circumstances, the dignity of commander. The most a memorable event of the siege of Troy is the quarrel of Agamemnon and Achilles, the subject of the "Iliad," in which the former placed himself very completely in the wrong. Returning from Troy,