=Actor=, a companion of Hercules in his expedition against the Amazons. ――――The father of Menœtius by Ægina, whence Patroclus is called _Actorides_. _Ovid_, _Tristia_, bk. 1, poem 8.――――A man called also Aruncus. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 12, li. 93.――――One of the friends of Æneas. _Æneid_, bk. 9, li. 500.――――A son of Neptune by Agameda. _Hyginus_, fable 14.――――A son of Deion and Diomede. _Apollodorus_, bk. 1, ch. 9.――――The father of Eurytus, and brother of Augeas. _Apollodorus_, bk. 2, ch. 7.――――A son of Acastus, one of the Argonauts. _Hyginus_, fable 14.――――The father of Astyoche. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 2.――_Pausanias_, bk. 9, ch. 37.――――A king of Lemnos. _Hyginus_, fable 102. =Actorĭdes=, a patronymic given to Patroclus grandson of Actor. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 13, fable 1.――――Also to Erithus son of Actor. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 5, fable 3.――――Two brothers so fond of each other, that in driving a chariot, one generally held the reins, and the other the whip; whence they are represented with two heads, four feet, and one body. Hercules conquered them. _Pindar._ =Actŏris=, a maid of Ulysses. _Homer_, _Odyssey_, bk. 23. =Marcus Actorius Naso=, a Roman historian. _Suetonius_, _Julius_, ch. 9. =Caius Aculeo=, a Roman lawyer celebrated as much for the extent of his understanding, as for his knowledge of law. He was uncle to Cicero. _Cicero_, _On Oratory_, bk. 1, ch. 43. =Acūphis=, an ambassador from India to Alexander. _Plutarch_, _Alexander_. =Acusilāus= and =Damagētus=, two brothers of Rhodes, conquerors at the Olympic games. The Greeks strewed flowers upon Diagoras their father, and called him happy in having such worthy sons. _Pausanias_, bk. 6, ch. 7. =Acusilāus=, an historian of Argos, often quoted by Josephus. He wrote on genealogies, in a style simple and destitute of all ornament. _Cicero_, _On Oratory_, bk. 2, ch. 29.――_Suidas._――――An Athenian who taught rhetoric at Rome under Galba. =M. Acutĭcus=, an ancient comic writer whose plays were known under the names of Leones, Gemini, Anus, Bœotia, &c. =Ada=, a sister of queen Artemisia, who married Hidricus. After her husband’s death, she succeeded to the throne of Caria; but being expelled by her younger brother, she retired to Alindæ, which she delivered to Alexander after adopting him as her son. _Curtius_, bk. 2, ch. 8.――_Strabo_, bk. 14. =Adad=, a deity among the Assyrians, supposed to be the sun. =Adæus=, a native of Mitylene, who wrote a Greek treatise on statuaries. _Athenæus_, bk. 13. =Adamantæa=, Jupiter’s nurse in Crete, who suspended him in his cradle to a tree, that he might be found neither in the earth, the sea, nor in heaven. To drown the infant’s cries, she had drums beat and cymbals sounded around the tree. _Hyginus_, fable 139.