=Lucius Accius=, a Roman tragic poet, whose roughness of style Quintilian has imputed to the unpolished age in which he lived. He translated some of the tragedies of Sophocles, but of his numerous pieces only some of the names are known; and among these his Nuptiæ, Mercator, Neoptolemus, Phœnice, Medea, Atreus, &c. The great marks of honour which he received at Rome may be collected from this circumstance: that a man was severely reprimanded by a magistrate for mentioning his name without reverence. Some few of his verses are preserved in Cicero and in other writers. He died about 180 years B.C. _Horace_, bk. 2, ltr. 1, li. 56.――_Ovid_, _Amores_, bk. 1, poem 15, li. 19.――_Quintilian_, bk. 10, ch. 1.――_Cicero_, _Letters to Atticus_ & _Brutus or de Claris Oratoribus_, bk. 3, ch. 16.――――A famous orator of Pisaurum in Cicero’s age.――――Labeo, a foolish poet mentioned _Persius_, bk. 1, li. 50.――――Tullius, a prince of the Volsci, very inimical to the Romans. Coriolanus, when banished by his countrymen, fled to him, and led his armies against Rome. _Livy_, bk. 2, ch. 37.――_Plutarch_, _Coriolanus_. =Acco=, a general of the Senones in Gaul. _Cæsar_, _Gallic War_, bk. 6, chs. 4 & 44.――――An old woman who fell mad on seeing her deformity in a looking-glass. _Hesychius._ =Accua=, a town in Italy. _Livy_, bk. 24, ch. 20. =Ace=, a town in Phœnicia, called also Ptolemais, now Acre. _Cornelius Nepos_, _Datames_, ch. 5.――――A place of Arcadia near Megalopolis, where Orestes was cured from the persecution of the furies, who had a temple there. _Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 34. =Acerātus=, a soothsayer, who remained alone at Delphi when the approach of Xerxes frightened away the inhabitants. _Herodotus_, bk. 8, ch. 37. =Acerbas=, a priest of Hercules at Tyre, who married Dido. _See:_ Sichæus. _Justin_, bk. 18, ch. 4. =Acerīna=, a colony of the Brutii in Magna Græcia, taken by Alexander of Epirus. _Livy_, bk. 8, ch. 24. =Acerræ=, an ancient town of Campania, near the river Clanius. It still subsists; and the frequent inundations from the river which terrified its ancient inhabitants, are now prevented by the large drains dug there. _Virgil_, _Georgics_, bk. 2, li. 225.――_Livy_, bk. 8, ch. 17. =Acersecŏmes=, a surname of Apollo, which signifies _unshorn_. _Juvenal_, satire 8, li. 128. =Aces=, a river of Asia. _Herodotus_, bk. 3, ch. 117. =Acesia=, part of the island of Lemnos, which received this name from Philoctetes, whose wound was cured there. _Philostratus._ =Acesīnes=, a river of Sicily. _Thucydides_, bk. 4, ch. 25. =Acesīnus=, or =Acesīnes=, a river of Persia falling into the Indus. Its banks produce reeds of such an uncommon size, that a piece of them, particularly between two knots, can serve as a boat to cross the water. _Justin_, bk. 12, ch. 9.――_Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 12. =Acesius=, a surname of Apollo, in Elis and Attica, as god of medicine. _Pausanias_, bk. 6, ch. 24.