=Actæus=, a powerful person who made himself master of a part of Greece, which he called Attica. His daughter Agraulos married Cecrops, whom the Athenians called their first king, though Actæus reigned before him. _Pausanias_, bk. 1, chs. 2 & 14.――――The word is of the same signification as _Atticus_, an inhabitant of Attica. =Acte=, a mistress of Nero, descended from Attalus. _Suetonius_, _Nero_, ch. 28.――――One of the Horæ. _Hyginus_, fable 183. =Actia=, the mother of Augustus. As she slept in the temple of Apollo, she dreamt that a dragon had lain with her. Nine months after she brought forth, having previously dreamt that her bowels were scattered all over the world. _Suetonius_, _Augustus_, ch. 94. ――――Games sacred to Apollo, in commemoration of the victory of Augustus over Marcus Antony at Actium. They were celebrated every third, sometimes fifth, year, with great pomp, and the Lacedæmonians had the care of them. _Plutarch_, _Antonius_.――_Strabo_, bk. 7.―― _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 3, li. 280; bk. 8, li. 675.――――A sister of Julius Cæsar. _Plutarch_, _Cicero_. =Actis=, son of Sol, went from Greece into Egypt, where he taught astrology, and founded Heliopolis. _Diodorus_, bk. 5. =Actisănes=, a king of Æthiopia who conquered Egypt, and expelled king Amasis. He was famous for his equity, and his severe punishment of robbers, whose noses he cut off, and whom he banished to a desert place, where they were in want of all aliment, and lived only upon crows. _Diodorus_, bk. 1. =Actium=, now _Azio_, a town and promontory of Epirus, famous for the naval victory which Augustus obtained over Antony and Cleopatra, the 2nd of September, B.C. 31, in honour of which the conqueror built there the town of Nicopolis, and instituted games. _See:_ Actia. _Plutarch_, _Antonius_.――_Suetonius_, _Augustus_.――――A promontory of Corcyra. _Cicero_, _Letters to Atticus_, bk. 7, ltr. 2. =Actius=, a surname of Apollo, from Actium, where he had a temple. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 8, li. 704.――――A poet. _See:_ Accius.――――A prince of the Volsci. _See:_ Accius. =Actius Navius=, an augur, who cut a loadstone in two with a razor, before Tarquin and the Roman people, to convince them of his skill as an augur. _Florus_, bk. 1, ch. 5.――_Livy_, bk. 1, ch. 36.―――― Labeo. _See:_ Labeo.