Agent
in law, one person who acts for another, called the principal.
If a person acts as agent without authority, the subsequent ratification of the act will make it binding on the principal just as if he had originally directed it. When an agent acts within the scope of his employment, he may bind his principal, and the principal is liable for any fraudulent acts or wrong-doings of the agent so acting. If the agent, having pover to bind his principal, does so expressly, he is not liable; but if he exceeds his authority, he becomes personally responsible. Upon the law of agency is based, to a large degree, the law of partnership. AGESANDER (aj-es-an'der), a famous sculptor of Rhodes, who, in the time of Vespasian, made a representation of the Laocoon's history, which now passes for the finest relic of all ancient sculpture.
The Laocoon was discovered at Rome in 1506, and afterward deposited in the Farnese palace, where it still remains.
AGESILAUS (aj-es-ē-lā'us), King of Sparta, was elevated to the throne chiefly by the exertions of Lysander. He was born about 444 в. c. and was one of the most brilliant soldiers of antiquity. Being called upon by the Ionians to assist them against Artaxerxes, he commenced a splendid campaign in Asia; but was compelled by the Corinthian War, in which several of the Grecian states were allied against Sparta, to leave his conquest over the Persians incomplete, and return to Greece. At Coronea (394 в. c.), he gained a victory over the allied forces.
He died about 360 B. C.