=Acarnas= and =Amphoterus=, sons of Alcmæon and Callirhöe. Alcmæon being murdered by the brothers of Alphesibœa his former wife, Callirhöe obtained from Jupiter, that her children, who were still in the cradle, might, by a supernatural power, suddenly grow up to punish their father’s murderers. This was granted. _See:_ Alcmæon. _Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 24.――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 9, fable 10. =Acarnas= and =Acarnan=, a stony mountain of Attica. _Seneca_, _Hippolytus_, li. 20. =Acasta=, one of the Oceanides. _Hesiod_, _Theogony_, li. 356. =Acastus=, son of Pelias king of Thessaly by Anaxibia, married Astydamia or Hippolyte, who fell in love with Peleus son of Æacus, when in banishment at her husband’s court. Peleus, rejecting the addresses of Hippolyte, was accused before Acastus of attempts upon her virtue, and soon after, at a chase, exposed to wild beasts. Vulcan, by order of Jupiter, delivered Peleus, who returned to Thessaly, and put to death Acastus and his wife. _See:_ Peleus and Astydamia. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 8, li. 306; _Heroides_, poem 13, li. 25.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 1, ch. 9, &c.――――The second archon at Athens. =Acathantus=, a bay in the Red sea.――_Strabo_, bk. 16. =Acca Laurentia=, the wife of Faustulus shepherd of king Numitor’s flocks, who brought up Romulus and Remus, who had been exposed on the banks of the Tiber. From her wantonness, she was called _Lupa_, prostitute, whence the fable that Romulus was suckled by a she-wolf. _Dionysius of Halicarnassus_, bk. 1, ch. 18.――_Livy_, bk. 1, ch. 4. ――_Aulus Gellius_, bk. 6, ch. 7.――――The Romans yearly celebrated certain festivals [_See:_ Laurentalia] in honour of another prostitute of the same name, which arose from this circumstance: the keeper of the temple of Hercules, one day playing at dice, made the god one of the number, on condition that if Hercules was defeated, he should make him a present, but if he conquered he should be entertained with an elegant feast, and share his bed with a beautiful female. Hercules was victorious, and accordingly Acca was conducted to the bed of Hercules, who in reality came to see her, and told her in the morning to go into the streets, and salute with a kiss the first man she met. This was Tarrutius, an old unmarried man, who, not displeased with Acca’s liberty, loved her, and made her the heiress of all his possessions. These, at her death, she gave to the Roman people, whence the honours paid to her memory. _Plutarch_, _Quæstiones Romanæ_, _Romulus_.――――A companion of Camilla. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 11, li. 820. =Accia=, or =Atia=, daughter of Julia and Marcus Atius Balbus, was the mother of Augustus, and died about 40 years B.C. _Dio Cassius._―― _Suetonius_, _Augustus_, ch. 4.――――Variola, an illustrious female, whose cause was eloquently pleaded by Pliny. _Pliny_, bk. 6, ch. 33. =Accĭla=, a town of Sicily. _Livy_, bk. 24, ch. 35.