Agathocles (Agath`ocles) , the tyrant of Syracuse, by the massacre of thousands of the inhabitants, was an enemy of the Carthaginians, and fought against them; was poisoned in the end (361‒289 B.C.).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Aga`thias * Ag`athon