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(Ἀγύριον; Agýrion). Town of the Siculi in the interior of Sicily, 25 km north-east of Henna, modern Agira, with cult of Heracles who reputedly visited A. (Diod. Sic. 4,24). At the beginning of the 4th cent. BC, it was settled with 20,000 citizens under the tyrant Agyris (Diod. Sic. 14,95). In 339 BC, Timoleon ousted the tyrant Apolloniades, initiated the settlement of 10,000 Greeks; brisk building activity ensued (Diod. Sic. 16,82 f.). Birth place of the historian Diodorus. Bronze coins minted from the end of…