. Universal historical dictionary, or, Explanation of the names of persons and places in the departments of Biblical, political, and ecclesiastical history, mythology, heraldry, biography, bibliography, geography, and numismatics . ACC according to Lucian, the proverb of Porcellus breed of horses, however, was so superior thatAxapviKei i7r7roi became proverbial for anv thing 2, c. 10; Polyb. 1. 5, c. 90; Scylax. in Perpi1. 2, c. 3; Strab. 1. 7, c. 9; Plin. 1. 4, c. 1 ; Mela. 1. 2, c. 3;Pans. 1. 8, c. 24; Plol. , c. 14; Lucian. Dial. Meret.;Maerob. 1. 1, c
. Universal historical dictionary, or, Explanation of the names of persons and places in the departments of Biblical, political, and ecclesiastical history, mythology, heraldry, biography, bibliography, geography, and numismatics . ACC according to Lucian, the proverb of Porcellus breed of horses, however, was so superior thatAxapviKei i7r7roi became proverbial for anv thing 2, c. 10; Polyb. 1. 5, c. 90; Scylax. in Perpi1. 2, c. 3; Strab. 1. 7, c. 9; Plin. 1. 4, c. 1 ; Mela. 1. 2, c. 3;Pans. 1. 8, c. 24; Plol. , c. 14; Lucian. Dial. Meret.;Maerob. 1. 1, c. 12; Steph. Byz. de Urb.; Nig- 1. (Xumis.) the medals of Acarnania were some ofthem common to the whole country as in the subjoined cuts. Fig. On the obverse of fig. 1, is a figure of Jupiter holding inone hand a thunderbolt : and in the other an eagle; theinscription ARAINANiiN ; on the reverse a hornedhead of Achelous, as is supposed, who is fabled to havechanged himself into a bull, Qvide Achelouf\ with the nameof a magistrate, NAY2IMAX02. On the obverse of fig. 2,is the figure of Apollo sitting with his bow; the inscrip-tion the same as the preceding; and on the reverse the samehead, which by some is supposed to he the head of theMinotaur. Goltz. Grmc.; Patin. Num. Imperat.; Pra?st. et Vsu Xumis. Peller. Bee. de Med. ACARNAS (Myth.) Axapvav, the son of AlemaHm andCalirrhoe. The former being murdered by the brothers ofhis first wife Alphisiboca, Calirrhoe obtained from Jupiterthat her children Acarnas and Amphoterus, who were stillinfants, should suddenly grow up to revenge their fathersmurder. Ovid. Met. L 1, fab. 10 ; Pans. 1. 8, c. 24. Acarnas (Geog.) or Acarnan, a stony mountain of in llipjwl.
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