Agron is a given name. It is a popular male Albanian name.[1]

History

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Agron appears as a name in Rider's English-Latin reference dictionary of the 17th century, with the entry reading: "Agron, ita dict. quod in agris natus esset. The name of a King; also a Physitian."[2] The Latin translates to "so-called he who was born in the countryside". Similar later works, including by Robert Ainsworth and Thomas Mortimer, focused more on the physician bearing the name (now known in English as Acron), writing how he was said to have set large fires around Athens and successfully stopped the Plague of Athens.[3][4][5]

People

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References

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  1. ^ Newmark, Leonard; Hubbard, Philip; Prifti, Peter R. (1982). Morfologjia (in Albanian). Stanford University Press. p. 126. ISBN 978-0-8047-1129-6.
  2. ^ Holyoake, F. (1612) Rider's dictionary corrected and augmented (PDF) 3rd edition. Oxford: J. Barnes, Printer to the University of Oxford.
  3. ^ Ainsworth, Robert (1808). Thesaurus Linguæ Latinæ Compendiarus, Or A Compendious Dictionary of the Latin Tongue. J. Johnson, J. Nichols and son, R. Baldwin, et al. p. 11.
  4. ^ An Universal, Historical, Geographical, Chronological and Poetical Dictionary, Exactly Describing the Situation, Extent, Customs ... of All Kingdoms ...: Containing Likewise the Lives of the Patriarchs, Prophets, Apostles, and Primitive Fathers; Emperors, Kings, Princes. J. Hartley ... W. Turner ... and Tho. Hodgson. 1703.
  5. ^ Thomas Mortimer (Vice-Consul for the Austrian Netherlands.) (1789). The Student's Pocket Dictionary; or, Compendium of Universal History, Chronology and Biography, etc.