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.