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 AGGERIIUUS revolted from Tachos he declared for the former. Nectanabis subjected him to new hu- miliations, but Agesilaus rescued him from a perilous position, and seated him firmly in power. The Egyptian gave him 220 talents for his services, with which he, in the winter of 361-360, hastened homeward to lay them at the feet of his beloved Sparta, then engaged in war. He never reached home, but died on the coast of Africa, whither he had been driven by a tempest, at the age of about 80, after a reign of 38 years. His body was embalmed in melted wax and taken to Sparta, where he was splendidly buried. AGGERHITS, or Akorslinns, a S. E. bailiwick of Norway, in the diocese of Christiania ; area, 2,012 sq. m. ; pop. in 1865, 164,804. It abounds in beautiful scenery, mountains, lakes, and wa- terfalls. The chief trade is in pitch and lum- ber, with some iron, tallow, and hides. The whole diocese of Christiania was formerly called Aggerhuus. AGHRUI, or Anghrim, a village in the coun- ty of Galway, Ireland, 30 m. E. of Galway, famous for the crowning victory of William III. over James II., July 12, 1691. The marquis St. Ruth, a French general, commanded the forces of James, 25,000 strong, while Gink el led those of William, 18,000. St. Ruth had made able dispositions for the battle, but, jeal- ous of the Irish generals, had kept his plans to himself, and when he was killed by a cannon shot early in the action there was no one to succeed him. The English troops, in spite of the well chosen position of their opponents, compelling them to advance through a deep bog, totally routed them, killing, it is said, 7,000, and taking 450 prisoners, while their own loss was only 1,700 killed and wounded. AGINCOURT, now Azineonrt, a village in the department of Pas de Calais, France, 7 m. N. E. of Hesdin, on the plains near which, on Oct. 25, 1415, Henry V. of England, with only 15,000 men, defeated the French army of more than 50,000, sent against him by the dauphin (son of the insane king, Charles VI.) and com- manded by D'Albret, constable of France, aided by many famous captains. The battle, which lasted three or four hours, was won chiefly through the superiority of the English archers, who almost annihilated the cavalry of the enemy when these had been drawn, by the excellent strategy of the English, into a swamp that lay between the armies. In this despe- rate conflict the French lost the dukes of Alen- con, Brabant, and Barre, the high constable, grand master, and high admiral of France, the master of the crossbows, above 120 princes of the blood and nobles, and 8,400 belted knights, esquires, and gentlemen of birth ; of the lower ranks there fell only 1,600 men. Of the Eng- lish, there fell only the duke of York, the earl of Suffolk, one knight, one esquire, and about 600. men of all ranks and arms. The dukes of Orleans and Bourbon and the high marshal of France, with 1,500 knights and nobles, were AGIS 187 captured, and languished for many years in English prisons. AGINCOURT, Jean Baptist* Louis George Se- ronx d', a French archajologist, born at Beau- vais, April 5, 1730, died in Rome, Sept. 24, 1814. His reputation rests on a work executed in Rome, entitled Histoire de Part par les monuments, depuis sa decadence au quatritme siecle jusqu'd son renouvellement au seizieme (6 yols. folio, with 325 engravings, 1823), to which are added analytical tables by M. Gence. AGIS, the name of four kings of Sparta. Agis I., who gave name to the Agid line of the joint kings of Sparta, is of uncertain his- tory, but is said to have reigned about 1,000 B. C., to have deprived the conquered people of Laconia of their equality with the Spartans, and to have made slaves of the revolted Helots (citizens of Helos). The following were all of the Proclid line. Agis II. (427-398 B. C.), son of Archidamus II., was actively engaged in the Peloponnesian war, and repeatedly in- vaded Attica. His son Leotychides being considered illegitimate, he was succeeded by his brother Agesilaus. Agis III. (338-331 B. C.) reigned at the time of Alexander the Great's expedition into Asia. In the absence of that conqueror, he made an irruption into Ar- cadia, but was defeated with great slaughter by Antipater, the viceroy whom Alexander had left behind him, and fell fighting. Agis IV. (244-240 B. C.), son of Eudamidas II., having come to the throne when he was but 20 years of age, conceived a liberal system of political and social change. The privileged class, who engrossed all the power of the state, and almost all its wealth, and who were alone entitled to call themselves Spartans, had dwin- dled down to 700 heads of families, of whom not more than 100 were wealthy. As by the laws of Lycurgus no Spartan citizen could pos- sess more than one lot of land, three fourths of these 100 wealthy proprietors were women, who were not deemed to be affected by the Lycurgian laws, and in whose hands most of the landed estates had accumulated. Agis himself, his mother, and his grandmother were among the wealthiest proprietors. His plan was, that the great proprietors should give up all their estates above the limit prescribed by Lycurgus, and that this surplusage should be divided in this way: 4,500 estates, situated in the dis- tricts adjoining the city of Sparta, to be given to the poorer Spartan citizens and the most respectable aliens, and 16,000 estates to be cut out from the outlying portions of Laconia, and bestowed on as many Perioeci capable of bearing arms, who were to be "admitted to Spartan citizenship ; all debts to be cancelled, and the whole community to start with a fresh score. He gained over his mother Agesistrata and his grandmother Archidamia, and after- ward his other relatives and private friends. The senate rejected the project by a majority of one, but a public meeting was called, when Agis spoke, and offered to give up his property.