Agathocles
361–289 b.c, tyrant of Syracuse 317–289.
Historical Examples
Agathocles sent for them to come and aid him in some of his wars.
Pyrrhus Jacob Abbott
Agathocles hesitated and placed his fingers upon the patient’s pulse.
The Lion’s Brood Duffield Osborne
Arsinoe, of course, was continually devising means to curtail the growing importance and greatness of Agathocles.
Pyrrhus Jacob Abbott
But this, as the proverb has it,A fragment from the earlier history of Agathocles.
The Histories of Polybius, Vol. II (of 2) Polybius
But the achievements of Agathocles can certainly not be ascribed to fortune.
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Such was the end of Agathocles and Agathocleia and their kinsfolk.
The Histories of Polybius, Vol. II (of 2) Polybius
Thus two hundred towns surrendered without resistance to Agathocles immediately he appeared in Africa.
History of Julius Caesar Vol. 1 of 2 Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873.
In vice and cruelty he rivals a Dionysius, an Agathocles, or a Phalaris.
The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch Petrarch
His daughter Arsino married Lysimachus in his old age, and urged him against his son, Agathocles, the husband of her own sister.
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So, lying one day in the entrance hall and gazing out over the Forum below, he turned to Agathocles, who sat close by.
The Lion’s Brood Duffield Osborne
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