of Elis on the bay of Corinth, which is now part of Livadia. It was
originally called Ægialus (_shore_) from its situation. The Ionians
called it Ionia, when they settled there; and it received the name
of Achaia, from the Achæi, who dispossessed the Ionians. _See:_
Achæi.――――A small part of Phthiotis was also called Achaia, of which
Alos was the capital.
=Achaicum bellum.= _See:_ Achæi.
=Achăra=, a town near Sardis. _Strabo_, bk. 14.
=Acharenses=, a people of Sicily near Syracuse. _Cicero_, _Against
Verres_, bk. 3.
=Acharnæ=, a village of Attica. _Thucydides_, bk. 2, ch. 19.
=Achātes=, a friend of Æneas, whose fidelity was so exemplary that
_Fidus Achates_ became a proverb. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 1, li.
316.――――A river of Sicily.
=Achĕlōĭdes=, a patronymic given to the Sirens as daughters of
Achelous. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 5, fable 15.
=Achelorium=, a river of Thessaly. _Polyænus_, bk. 8.
=Achelōus=, the son of Oceanus or Sol by Terra or Tethys, god of the
river of the same name in Epirus. As one of the numerous suitors
of Dejanira daughter of Œneus he entered the lists against Hercules
and being inferior, changed himself into a serpent, and afterwards
into an ox. Hercules broke off one of his horns, and Achelous being
defeated, retired in disgrace into his bed of waters. The broken
horn was taken up by the nymphs, and filled with fruits and flowers,
and after it had for some time adorned the hand of the conqueror, it
was presented to the goddess of plenty. Some say that he was changed
into a river after the victory of Hercules. This river is in Epirus,
and rises in mount Pindus, and after dividing Acarnania from Ætolia,
falls into the Ionian sea. The sand and mud which it carries down,
have formed some islands at its mouth. This river is said by some
to have sprung from the earth after the deluge. _Herodotus_, bk. 2,
ch. 10.――_Strabo_, bk. 10.――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 8, fable 5;
bk. 9, fable 1; _Amores_, bk. 3, poem 6, li. 35.――_Apollodorus_,
bk. 1, chs. 3 & 7; bk. 2, ch. 7.――_Hyginus_, preface to fables.――――A
river of Arcadia falling into the Alpheus.――――Another flowing from
mount Sipylus. _Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 38.
=Acherdus=, a tribe of Attica; hence _Acherdusius_, _Demosthenes_.
=Acherĭmi=, a people of Sicily. _Cicero_, bk. 3, _Against Verres_.
=Achĕron=, a river of Thesprotia, in Epirus, falling into the bay of
Ambracia. Homer called it, from the dead appearance of its waters,
one of the rivers of hell, and the fable has been adopted by all
succeeding poets, who make the god of the stream to be the son of
Ceres without a father, and say that he concealed himself in hell
for fear of the Titans, and was changed into a bitter stream, over
which the souls of the dead are at first conveyed. It receives,
say they, the souls of the dead, because a deadly languor seizes
them at the hour of dissolution. Some make him son of Titan, and
suppose that he was plunged into hell by Jupiter, for supplying the
Titans with water. The word Acheron is often taken for hell itself.
_Horace_, bk. 1, ode 3, li. 36.――_Virgil_, _Georgics_, bk. 2, li.
292; _Æneid_, bk. 2, li. 295, &c.――_Strabo_, bk. 7.――_Lucan_, bk. 3,
li. 16.――_Silius Italicus_, bk. 2.――_Sylvæ_, poem 6, li. 80.――_Livy_,
bk. 8, ch. 24.――――A river of Elis in Peloponnesus.――――Another on the
Riphæan mountains. _Orpheus._――――Also a river in the country of the
Brutii in Italy. _Justin_, bk. 12, ch. 2.
=Acherontia=, a town of Apulia on a mountain, thence called _Nidus_ by
_Horace_, bk. 3, ode 4, li. 14.
=Acherūsia=, a lake of Egypt near Memphis, over which, as Diodorus,
bk. 1, mentions, the bodies of the dead were conveyed, and received
sentence according to the actions of their life. The boat was called
Baris, and the ferryman Charon. Hence arose the fable of Charon
and the Styx, &c., afterwards imported into Greece by Orpheus, and
adopted in the religion of the country.――――There was a river of the
same name in Epirus, and another in Italy in Calabria.
=Acherūsias=, a place or cave in Chersonesus Taurica, where Hercules,
as is reported, dragged Cerberus out of hell. _Xenophon_, _Anabasis_,
bk. 6.
=Achetus=, a river of Sicily. _Silius Italicus_, bk. 14.
=Achillas=, a general of Ptolemy, who murdered Pompey the Great.
_Plutarch_, _Pompey_.――_Lucan_, bk. 8, li. 538.
=Achillēa=, a peninsula near the mouth of the Borysthenes. _Mela_,
bk. 2, ch. 1.――_Herodotus_, bk. 4, chs. 55 & 76.――――An island at the
mouth of the Ister, where was the tomb of Achilles, over which it is
said that birds never flew. _Pliny_, bk. 10, ch. 29.――――A fountain
of Miletus, whose waters rise salted from the earth, and afterwards
sweeten in their course. _Athenaeus_, bk. 2, ch. 2.
=Achilleienses=, a people near Macedonia. _Xenophon_, _Hellenica_,
bk. 3.
=Achillēis=, a poem of Statius, in which he describes the education
and memorable actions of Achilles. This composition is imperfect.
The poet’s premature death deprived the world of a valuable history
of the life and exploits of this famous hero. _See:_ Statius.
=Achilles=, the son of Peleus and Thetis, was the bravest of all the
♦Greeks in the Trojan war. During his infancy, Thetis plunged him
in the Styx, and made every part of his body invulnerable, except
the heel, by which she held him. His education was entrusted to the
centaur Chiron, who taught him the art of war and made him master of
music, and by feeding him with the marrow of wild beasts, rendered
him vigorous and active. He was taught eloquence by Phœnix, whom he
ever after loved and respected. Thetis, to prevent him from going to
the Trojan war, where she knew he was to perish, privately sent him
to the court of Lycomedes, where he was disguised in a female dress,
and, by his familiarity with the king’s daughters, made Deidamia
mother of Neoptolemus. As Troy could not be taken without the aid
of Achilles, Ulysses went to the court of Lycomedes, in the habit of
a merchant, and exposed jewels and arms to sale. Achilles, choosing
the arms, discovered his sex, and went to the war. Vulcan, at the
entreaties of Thetis, made him a strong suit of armour, which was
proof against all weapons. He was deprived by Agamemnon of his
favourite mistress, Briseis, who had fallen to his lot at the
division of the booty of Lyrnessus, and for this affront, he refused
to appear in the field till the death of his friend Patroclus
recalled him to action, and to revenge. _See:_ Patroclus. He slew
Hector the bulwark of Troy, tied the corpse by the heels to his
chariot, and dragged it three times round the walls of Troy. After
thus appeasing the shades of his friend, he yielded to the tears and
entreaties of Priam, and permitted the aged father to ransom and to
carry away Hector’s body. In the 10th year of the war, Achilles was
charmed with Polyxena; and as he solicited her hand in the temple of
Minerva, it is said that Paris aimed an arrow at his vulnerable heel,
of which wound he died. His body was buried at Sigæum, and divine
honours were paid to him, and temples raised to his memory. It is
said, that after the taking of Troy, the ghost of Achilles appeared
to the Greeks, and demanded of them Polyxena, who accordingly was
sacrificed on his tomb by his son Neoptolemus. Some say that this
sacrifice was voluntary, and that Polyxena was so grieved at his
death that she killed herself on his tomb. The Thessalians yearly
sacrificed a black and a white bull on his tomb. It is reported
that he married Helen after the siege of Troy; but others maintain,
that this marriage happened after his death, in the island of Leuce,
where many of the ancient heroes lived, as in a separate elysium.
_See:_ Leuce. When Achilles was young, his mother asked him, whether
he preferred a long life, spent in obscurity and retirement, or a
few years of military fame and glory? and that, to his honour, he
made choice of the latter. Some ages after the Trojan war, Alexander
going to the conquest of Persia, offered sacrifices on the tomb
of Achilles, and admired the hero who had found a Homer to publish
his fame to posterity. _Xenophon_, _On Hunting_.――_Plutarch_,
_Alexander_; _De facie in orbe Lunæ_; _De Musica_; _De amicorum
multitudine_; _Quæstiones Græcæ_.――_Pausanias_, bk. 3, ch. 18,
&c.――_Diodorus_, bk. 17.――_Statius_, _Achilleid_.――_Ovid_,
_Metamorphoses_, bk. 12, fable 3, &c.; _Tristia_, bk. 3, poem 5,
li. 37, &c.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 1, lis. 472, 488; bk. 2, li. 275;
bk. 6, li. 58, &c.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 3, ch. 13.――_Hyginus_, fables
96 & 110.――_Strabo_, bk. 14.――_Pliny_, bk. 35, ch. 15.――_Maximus of
Tyre_, Oration 27.――_Horace_, bk. 1, ode 8; bk. 2, odes 4 & 16; bk.
4, ode 6; bk. 2, ltr. 2, li. 42.――_Homer_, _Iliad_ & _Odyssey_.――
_Dictys Cretensis_, bks. 1, 2, 3, &c.――_Dares Phrygius._――_Juvenal_,
satire 7, li. 210.―― _Apollonius_, bk. 4, _Argonautica_, li. 869.――――
There were other persons of the same name. The most known were――a
man who received Juno when she fled from Jupiter’s courtship――――the
preceptor of Chiron the centaur――――a son of Jupiter and Lamia,
declared by Pan to be fairer than Venus――――a man who instituted
ostracism at Athens――――Tatius, a native of Alexandria, in the
age of the emperor Claudius, but originally a pagan, converted
to Christianity, and made a bishop. He wrote a mixed history of
great men, a treatise on the sphere, tactics, a romance on the loves
of Clitophon and Leucippe, &c. Some manuscripts of his works are
preserved in the Vatican and Palatinate libraries. The best edition
of his works is that in 12mo, Leiden, 1640.
♦ ‘Geeeks’ replaced with ‘Greeks’
=Achillēum=, a town of Troas near the tomb of Achilles, built by the
Mityleneans. _Pliny_, bk. 5, ch. 30.
♦=Achilleus=, or =Aquileus=, a Roman general in Egypt, in the reign of
Diocletian, who rebelled, and for five years maintained the imperial
dignity at Alexandria. Diocletian at last marched against him; and
because he had supported a long siege, the emperor ordered him to be
devoured by lions.
♦ Placed in alphabetical order
=Achīvi=, the name of the inhabitants of Argos and Lacedæmon before
the return of the Heraclidæ, by whom they were expelled from
their possessions 80 years after the Trojan war. Being without a
home, they drove the Ionians from Ægialus, seized their 12 cities,
and called the country Achaia. The Ionians were received by the
Athenians. The appellation of _Achivi_ is indiscriminately applied
by the ancient poets to all the Greeks. _Pausanias_, bk. 7, ch. 1,
&c. _See:_ Achaia.
=Achladæus=, a Corinthian general, killed by Aristomenes. _Pausanias_,
bk. 4, ch. 19.
=Acholōe=, one of the Harpies. _Hyginus_, fable 14.
=Acichōrius=, a general with Brennus in the expedition which the Gauls
undertook against Pæonia. _Pausanias_, bk. 10, ch. 10.
=Acidālia=, a surname of Venus, from a fountain of the same name in
Bœotia, sacred to her. The Graces bathed in the fountain. _Virgil_,
_Æneid_, bk. 1, li. 720.――_Ovid_, _Fasti_, bk. 4, li. 468.
=Acidāsa=, a river of Peloponnesus, formerly called Jardanus.
_Pausanias_, bk. 5, ch. 5.
=Acilia=, a plebeian family at Rome, which traced its pedigree up to
the Trojans.――――The mother of Lucan.
=Acilia lex=, was enacted, A.U.C. 556, by Acilius the tribune, for the
plantation of five colonies in Italy. _Livy_, bk. 32, ch. 29.――――
Another called also Calpurnia, A.U.C. 684, which enacted, that no
person convicted of _ambitus_, or using bribes at elections, should
be admitted in the senate, or hold an office.――――Another concerning
such as were guilty of extortion in the provinces.
=Marcus Acilius Balbus=, was consul with Portius Cato, A.U.C. 640. It
is said that during his consulship, milk and blood fell from heaven.
_Pliny_, bk. 2, ch. 56.――――Glabrio, a tribune of the people, who
with a legion quelled the insurgent slaves in Etruria. Being consul
with Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica, A.U.C. 563, he conquered
Antiochus at Thermopylæ, for which he obtained a triumph, and
three days were appointed for public thanksgiving. He stood for
the censorship against Cato, but desisted on account of the false
measures used by his competitor. _Justin_, bk. 31, ch. 6.――_Livy_,
bk. 30, ch. 40; bk. 31, ch. 50; bk. 33, ch. 10, &c.――――The son of
the preceding, erected a temple to Piety, which his father had vowed
to this goddess when fighting against Antiochus. He raised a golden
statue to his father, the first that appeared in Italy. The temple
of piety was built on the spot where once a woman had fed with her
milk her aged father, whom the senate had imprisoned, and excluded
from all aliments. _Valerius Maximus_, bk. 2, ch. 5.――――The enactor
of a law against bribery.――――A prætor in the time that Verres was
accused by Cicero.――――A man accused of extortion, and twice defended
by Cicero. He was proconsul of Sicily, and lieutenant to Cæsar in
the civil wars. _Cæsar_, _Civil War_, bk. 3, ch. 15.――――A consul,
whose son was killed by Domitian, because he fought with wild beasts.
The true cause of this murder was, that young Glabrio was stronger
than the emperor, and therefore envied. _Juvenal_, satire 4, li. 94.
=Acilla=, a town of Africa, near Adrumetum. Some read Acolla. _Cæsar_,
_African War_, ch. 33.
=Acis=, a shepherd of Sicily, son of Faunus and the nymph Simæthis.
Galatæa passionately loved him; upon which his rival Polyphemus,
through jealousy, crushed him to death with a piece of a broken rock.
The gods changed Acis into a stream, which rises from mount Ætna.
_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 13, fable 8.
=Acmon=, a native of Lyrnessus, who accompanied Æneas into Italy. His
father’s name was Clytus. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 10, li. 128.
=Acmonĭdes=, one of the Cyclops. _Ovid_, _Fasti_, bk. 4, li. 288.
=Acœtes=, the pilot of the ship whose crew found Bacchus asleep, and
carried him away. As they ridiculed the god, they were changed into
sea monsters, but Acœtes was preserved. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_,
bk. 3, fable 8, &c. _See:_ Acetes.
=Acontes=, one of Lycaon’s 50 sons. _Apollodorus_, bk. 3, ch. 8.
=Aconteus=, a famous hunter changed into a stone by the head of Medusa,
at the nuptials of Perseus and Andromeda. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_,
bk. 5, li. 201.――――A person killed in the wars of Æneas and Turnus,
in Italy. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 11, li. 615.
=Acontius=, a youth of Cea, who, when he went to Delos to see the
sacrifice of Diana, fell in love with Cydippe, a beautiful virgin,
and being unable to obtain her, on account of the obscurity of his
origin, wrote these verses on an apple, which he threw into her
bosom:
_Juro tibi sanctæ per mystica sacra Dianæ,
Me tibi venturam comitem, sponsamque futuram._
Cydippe read the verses, and being compelled by the oath she had
inadvertently made, married Acontius. _Ovid_, _Heroides_, poem 20.
――――A mountain of Bœotia. _Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 7.
=Acontobūlus=, a place of Cappadocia, under Hyppolyte queen of the
Amazons. _Apollonius_, _Argonautica_, bk. 2.
=Acōris=, a king of Egypt, who assisted Evagoras king of Cyprus
against Persia. _Diodorus_, bk. 15.
=Acra=, a town in Italy,――――Eubœa,――――Cyprus,――――Acarnania,――――
Sicily, ――――Africa,――――Sarmatia, &c.――――A promontory of Calabria,
now Capo di Leuca.
=Acradīna=, the citadel of Syracuse, taken by Marcellus the Roman
consul. _Plutarch_, _Marcellus_.――_Cicero_, _Against Verres_, bk. 4.
=Acræ=, a mountain in Peloponnesus. _Pausanias_, bk. 2, ch. 34.
=Acræa=, a daughter of the river Asterion.――――A surname of Diana, from
a temple built to her by Melampus, on a mountain near Argos.――――A
surname of Juno. _Pausanias_, bk. 2, ch. 17.
=Acræphnia=, a town in Bœotia; whence Apollo is called Acraæphnius.
_Herodotus_, bk. 8, ch. 135.
=Acragallĭdæ=, a dishonest nation living anciently near Athens.
_Æschines_, _Against Ctesiphon_.
=Acrăgas.= _See:_ Agragas.
=Acrātus=, a freedman of Nero, sent into Asia to plunder the temples
of the gods. _Tacitus_, _Annals_, bk. 15, ch. 45; bk. 16, ch. 23.
=Acrias=, one of Hippodamia’s suitors. _Pausanias_, bk. 6, ch. 21.――――
He built Acriæ, a town of Laconia. _Pausanias_, bk. 3, ch. 21.
=Acridophăgi=, an Æthiopian nation, who fed upon locusts, and lived
not beyond their 40th year. At the approach of old age swarms of
winged lice attacked them, and gnawed their belly and breast, till
the patient, by rubbing himself, drew blood, which increased their
number, and ended in his death. _Diodorus_, bk. 3.――_Pliny_, bk. 11,
ch. 29.――_Strabo_, bk. 16.
=Acrīon=, a Pythagorean philosopher of Locris. _Cicero_, _De Finibus_,
bk. 5, ch. 29.
=Acrisioneus=, a patronymic applied to the Argives, from Acrisius, one
of their ancient kings, or from Acrisione, a town of Argolis, called
after a daughter of Acrisius of the same name. _Virgil_, _Æneid_,
bk. 7, li. 410.
=Acrisioniădes=, a patronymic of Perseus, from his grandfather Acrisius.
_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 5, li. 70.
=Acrisius=, son of Abas king of Argos, by Ocalea daughter of Mantineus.
He was born at the same birth as Prœtus, with whom it is said that
he quarrelled even in his mother’s womb. After many dissensions,
Prœtus was driven from Argos. Acrisius had Danae by Eurydice
daughter of Lacedæmon; and being told by an oracle, that his
daughter’s son would put him to death, he confined Danae in a
brazen tower, to prevent her becoming a mother. She, however,
became pregnant, by Jupiter changed into a golden shower; and though
Acrisius ordered her, and her infant called Perseus, to be exposed
on the sea, yet they were saved; and Perseus soon after became so
famous for his actions, that Acrisius, anxious to see so renowned
a grandson, went to Larissa. Here Perseus, wishing to show his
skill in throwing a quoit, killed an old man who proved to be his
grandfather, whom he knew not, and thus the oracle was unhappily
fulfilled. Acrisius reigned about 31 years. _Hyginus_, fable
63.――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 4, fable 16.――_Horace_, bk. 3,
ode 16.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 2, ch. 2, &c.――_Pausanias_, bk. 2,
ch. 16, &c.――_See:_ Danae, Perseus, Polydectes.
=Acrītas=, a promontory of Messenia, in Peloponnesus. _Pliny_, bk. 4,
ch. 5.――_Mela_, bk. 2, ch. 3.
=Acroāthon=, or =Acrothoos=, a town on the top of mount Athos,
whose inhabitants lived to an uncommon old age. _Mela_, bk. 2,
ch. 2.――_Pliny_, bk. 8, ch. 10.
=Acroceraunium=, a promontory of Epirus, with mountains called
Acroceraunia, which project between the Ionian and Adriatic seas.
The word comes from ἀκρος, _high_, and κεραυνος, _thunder_; because,
on account of their great height, they were often struck with thunder.
_Lucretius_, bk. 6, li. 420.――_Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 1. ――_Virgil_,
_Æneid_, bk. 3, li. 506.――_Strabo_, bk. 6.――_Horace_, bk. 1, ode 3,
li. 20.
=Acrocorinthus=, a lofty mountain on the isthmus of Corinth, taken
by Aratus, B.C. 243. There is a temple of Venus on the top, and
Corinth is built at the bottom. _Strabo_, bk. 8.――_Pausanias_, bk. 2,
ch. 4.――_Plutarch_, _Aratus_.――_Statius_, _Thebiad_, bk. 7, li. 106.
=Acron=, a king of Cenina, killed by Romulus in single combat, after
the rape of the Sabines. His spoils were dedicated to Jupiter
Feretrius. _Plutarch_, _Romulus_.――――A physician of Agrigentum,
B.C. 430, educated at Athens with Empedocles. He wrote physical
treatises in the Doric dialect, and cured the Athenians of a plague
by lighting a fire near the houses of the infected. _Pliny_, bk. 29,
ch. 1.――_Plutarch_, _De Iside et Osiride_.――――One of the friends of
Æneas, killed by Mezentius. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 10, li. 719.
=Acropātos=, one of Alexander’s officers, who obtained part of Media
after the king’s death. _Justin_, bk. 13, ch. 4.
=Acropŏlis=, the citadel of Athens, built on a rock, and accessible
only on one side. Minerva had a temple at the bottom. _Pausanias_,
_Atticus_.
=Acrotătus=, son of Cleomenes king of Sparta, died before his father,
leaving a son called Areus. _Pausanias_, bk. 1, ch. 13; bk. 3,
ch. 6.――――A son of Areus, who was greatly loved by Chelidonis wife
of Cleonymus. This amour displeased her husband, who called Pyrrhus
the Epirot to avenge his wrongs. When Sparta was besieged by Pyrrhus,
Acrotatus was seen bravely fighting in the middle of the enemy, and
commended by the multitude, who congratulated Chelidonis on being
mistress to such a warlike lover. _Plutarch_, _Pyrrhus_.
=Acrothoos.= _See:_ Acroathon.
=Acta=, or =Acte=, a country of Attica. This word signifies _shore_,
and is applied to Attica, as being near the sea. It is derived by
some writers from Actæus, a king, from whom the Athenians have been
called Actæi. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 1, li. 312.――_Virgil_,
_Eclogues_, poem 2, li. 23.
=Acta=, a place near mount Athos, on the Ægean sea. _Thucydides_,
bk. 4, ch. 109.
=Actæa=, one of the Nereides. _Hesiod_, _Theogony_, li. 250.――_Homer_,
_Iliad_, bk. 18, li. 41.――――A surname of Ceres.――――A daughter of
Danaus. _Apollodorus_, bk. 2, ch. 1.
=Actæon=, a famous huntsman, son of Aristæus and Autonoe daughter of
Cadmus, whence he is called _Autonoeius heros_. He saw Diana and
her attendant, bathing near Gargaphia, for which he was changed into
a stag, and devoured by his own dogs. _Pausanias_, bk. 9, ch. 2.
――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 3, fable 3.――――A beautiful youth,
son of Melissus of Corinth, whom Archias, one of the Heraclidæ,
endeavoured to debauch and carry away. He was killed in the struggle
which in consequence of this happened between his father and
ravisher. Melissus complained of the insult, and drowned himself;
and soon after, the country being visited by a pestilence, Archias
was expelled. _Plutarch_, _Amatoriæ narrationes_.
=Actæus=, a powerful person who made himself master of a part of
Greece, which he called Attica. His daughter Agraulos married
Cecrops, whom the Athenians called their first king, though Actæus
reigned before him. _Pausanias_, bk. 1, chs. 2 & 14.――――The word is
of the same signification as _Atticus_, an inhabitant of Attica.
=Acte=, a mistress of Nero, descended from Attalus. _Suetonius_,
_Nero_, ch. 28.――――One of the Horæ. _Hyginus_, fable 183.
=Actia=, the mother of Augustus. As she slept in the temple of
Apollo, she dreamt that a dragon had lain with her. Nine months
after she brought forth, having previously dreamt that her bowels
were scattered all over the world. _Suetonius_, _Augustus_, ch. 94.
――――Games sacred to Apollo, in commemoration of the victory of
Augustus over Marcus Antony at Actium. They were celebrated every
third, sometimes fifth, year, with great pomp, and the Lacedæmonians
had the care of them. _Plutarch_, _Antonius_.――_Strabo_, bk. 7.――
_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 3, li. 280; bk. 8, li. 675.――――A sister of
Julius Cæsar. _Plutarch_, _Cicero_.
=Actis=, son of Sol, went from Greece into Egypt, where he taught
astrology, and founded Heliopolis. _Diodorus_, bk. 5.
=Actisănes=, a king of Æthiopia who conquered Egypt, and expelled king
Amasis. He was famous for his equity, and his severe punishment of
robbers, whose noses he cut off, and whom he banished to a desert
place, where they were in want of all aliment, and lived only upon
crows. _Diodorus_, bk. 1.
=Actium=, now _Azio_, a town and promontory of Epirus, famous for the
naval victory which Augustus obtained over Antony and Cleopatra, the
2nd of September, B.C. 31, in honour of which the conqueror built
there the town of Nicopolis, and instituted games. _See:_ Actia.
_Plutarch_, _Antonius_.――_Suetonius_, _Augustus_.――――A promontory of
Corcyra. _Cicero_, _Letters to Atticus_, bk. 7, ltr. 2.
=Actius=, a surname of Apollo, from Actium, where he had a temple.
_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 8, li. 704.――――A poet. _See:_ Accius.――――A
prince of the Volsci. _See:_ Accius.
=Actius Navius=, an augur, who cut a loadstone in two with a razor,
before Tarquin and the Roman people, to convince them of his skill
as an augur. _Florus_, bk. 1, ch. 5.――_Livy_, bk. 1, ch. 36.――――
Labeo. _See:_ Labeo.