Achaicum bellum. See: [Achæi].
Achăra, a town near Sardis. Strabo, bk. 14.
Acharenses, a people of Sicily near Syracuse. Cicero, Against Verres, bk. 3.
Acharnæ, a village of Attica. Thucydides, bk. 2, ch. 19.
Achātes, a friend of Æneas, whose fidelity was so exemplary that Fidus Achates became a proverb. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 1, li. 316.——A river of Sicily.
Achĕlōĭdes, a patronymic given to the Sirens as daughters of Achelous. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 5, fable 15.
Achelorium, a river of Thessaly. Polyænus, bk. 8.
Achelōus, the son of Oceanus or Sol by Terra or Tethys, god of the river of the same name in Epirus. As one of the numerous suitors of Dejanira daughter of Œneus he entered the lists against Hercules and being inferior, changed himself into a serpent, and afterwards into an ox. Hercules broke off one of his horns, and Achelous being defeated, retired in disgrace into his bed of waters. The broken horn was taken up by the nymphs, and filled with fruits and flowers, and after it had for some time adorned the hand of the conqueror, it was presented to the goddess of plenty. Some say that he was changed into a river after the victory of Hercules. This river is in Epirus, and rises in mount Pindus, and after dividing Acarnania from Ætolia, falls into the Ionian sea. The sand and mud which it carries down, have formed some islands at its mouth. This river is said by some to have sprung from the earth after the deluge. Herodotus, bk. 2, ch. 10.—Strabo, bk. 10.—Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 8, fable 5; bk. 9, fable 1; Amores, bk. 3, poem 6, li. 35.—Apollodorus, bk. 1, chs. 3 & 7; bk. 2, ch. 7.—Hyginus, preface to fables.——A river of Arcadia falling into the Alpheus.——Another flowing from mount Sipylus. Pausanias, bk. 8, ch. 38.
Acherdus, a tribe of Attica; hence Acherdusius, Demosthenes.
Acherĭmi, a people of Sicily. Cicero, bk. 3, Against Verres.