A′BAS, a son of Meganira, was turned into a newt, or water-lizard, for
deriding the ceremonies of the Sacrifice.
ABSY′RTUS, brother of Medea.
ACHELO′US was a son of Oceanus and Terra. He had the power of assuming
all shapes, and in a conflict with Hercules he turned himself into a
serpent, and then into a bull, but he was finally defeated, and he then
turned himself into a river, which has since been called Achelous.
ACH′ERON. One of the rivers of the infernal regions to which the
spirits of the dead resorted, and waited there till Charon the ferryman
took them over.
“Infernal rivers that disgorge
Into the burning lake their baleful streams.
... Sad Acheron, of sorrow black and deep.”