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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Agathias (c. 530–582)

Agathias (a-gā’thi-as). A Greek poet and historian; about A.D. 536–581. He collected a ‘Cycle of Epigrams’ in which are some of his own composition. We have still 101 of his ‘Epigrams’ and the whole of his ‘History’ of the years 553–558. (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).