Acontius, a youth of Cea, who, when he went to Delos to see the sacrifice of Diana, fell in love with Cydippe, a beautiful virgin, and being unable to obtain her, on account of the obscurity of his origin, wrote these verses on an apple, which he threw into her bosom:
Juro tibi sanctæ per mystica sacra Dianæ,
Me tibi venturam comitem, sponsamque futuram.
Cydippe read the verses, and being compelled by the oath she had inadvertently made, married Acontius. Ovid, Heroides, poem 20.——A mountain of Bœotia. Pliny, bk. 4, ch. 7.
Acontobūlus, a place of Cappadocia, under Hyppolyte queen of the Amazons. Apollonius, Argonautica, bk. 2.
Acōris, a king of Egypt, who assisted Evagoras king of Cyprus against Persia. Diodorus, bk. 15.
Acra, a town in Italy,——Eubœa,——Cyprus,——Acarnania,——Sicily,——Africa,——Sarmatia, &c.——A promontory of Calabria, now Capo di Leuca.
Acradīna, the citadel of Syracuse, taken by Marcellus the Roman consul. Plutarch, Marcellus.—Cicero, Against Verres, bk. 4.
Acræ, a mountain in Peloponnesus. Pausanias, bk. 2, ch. 34.
Acræa, a daughter of the river Asterion.——A surname of Diana, from a temple built to her by Melampus, on a mountain near Argos.——A surname of Juno. Pausanias, bk. 2, ch. 17.