Agrigentum

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

the parentage), he was born in Imus, in the the S.'coast modern Girgenti, a town on the province of Cavité, in Luzon, in 1870. His father was a planter and he received of Sicily, founded by a colony from Gela his early education at Catholic colleges, in 582 B. C., and in the earlier ages one and studied medicine. In 1888 he of the most important places in the island. After being at first free, it was utterly some trouble with the authorities and went to Hong Kong. On the outbreak demolished by the Carthaginians in 405 B. C. In the course of the Punic Wars it of the rebellion against Spanish auwas compelled to submit to the Romans. thority, in 1896, Aguinaldo became a com- From 827 to 1080 A. D. it was in the posmanding figure with the insurgents. He session of the Saracens, from whom it was at the head of the diplomatic party, Roger Guiscard. which succeeded in making terms wit was conquered by Count R The modern Girgenti still shows numerthe Spanish Government, the latter pay- Ieplendid ruins. Empedocles was ing a large sum to the Philippine leaders to lay down their arms. Aguinaldo quar- AGRIPPA II., HEROD, tetrarch of Abilene, Galilee, Iturea, and Trachonitis, born in 27 A. D. During his reign he en- Philippi and named it Neronias, in honor of Nero. He remained faithful to the Romans, and tried to dissuade the Jews from rebelling. After the fall of Jerusalem he retired to Rome, where he died in 100 A. D. Before him the AGUAS CALIENTES (ag'waz kalyān'taz), a town of Mexico, capital of a central State of the same name, with an area of 2,900 square miles and a population of about 125,000, stands on a plain 6,000 feet above the sea-level, 270 miles N. W. of the City of Mexico. The environs abound in hot springs, from which Pop. about