A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

(Ἀγησίας), one of the lambidae, and an hereditary priest of Zeus at Olympia, gained the victory there in the mule race, and is celebrated on that account by Pindar in the sixth Olympic ode. Böckh places his victory in the 78th Olympiad.