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].
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.