Acragas
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Hellenica
A Sicilian city besieged and starved into submission by the Carthaginians after seven months.
So the year ended, being the year in which the Carthaginians made an expedition to Sicily with one hundred and twenty triremes and an army of one hundred and twenty thousand men, and although defeated in battle, starved Acragas into submission after besieging it for seven months.
So the year ended, in the middle of which Dionysius of Syracuse, the son of Hermocrates, became tyrant, after the Carthaginians had been defeated in battle by the Syracusans, but had captured Acragas by famine, the Siceliots abandoning the city.
Stromata
Sicilian city near which Empedocles reputedly stopped a sickly wind.
" It is said, then, that from the mountain of Acragas, a wind once blowing heavy and sickly upon the inhabitants — and the cause too of barrenness in their women — he stopped the wind;
The Histories
Sicilian city ruled by Theron, later occupying the site of the ancient town of Camicus.
This man, who had been expelled from Himera by Theron son of Aenesidemus, sovereign ruler of Acragas, at this very time brought against Gelon three hundred thousand Phoenicians, Libyans, Iberians, Ligyes, Elisyci, Sardinians, and Cyrnians, led by Amilcas son of Annon, the king of the Carchedonians.
Here they besieged the town of Camicus, where in my day the men of Acragas dwelt, for five years.
De Rerum Natura
Acragas (modern Agrigento), the Sicilian city that was the birthplace of Empedocles.
As first Empedocles of Acragas,
History of the Peloponnesian War
Sicilian Greek city courted unsuccessfully by Syracuse amid internal factional strife.
After this, the Syracusans being again, as before, restored to confidence on the strength of such unexpected good fortune, despatched Sicanus with fifteen ships to Acragas, which was torn by factions, to induce the city to join them, if he could:
and though Sicanus had failed in winning Acragas, (for while he was still at Gela, the party friendly to the Syracusans had been driven out;