=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_.