=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.