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acro or acrōn, ōnis, m., = ἄκρων, the extremity of a thing; so of a member of the body, Veg. 2, 28, 17; 5, 65, 2; of the stem of a plant, Apic. 4, 4.

ācrŏāmă, ătis, n., = ἀκρόαμα.
Prop., that which is heard with pleasure, a gratification to the ear; as music or reading; esp. used for entertainment at meals, with music or reading, Plin. Ep. 6, 31, 13; Suet. Vesp. 19; Petron. Fragm. Tragun. p. 297.
Hence, meton. (like the plur. in Greek), the entertainer at table, by music (a performer) or by reading (a reader); also a buffoon: cum ex Themistocle quaererctur, quod acroama aut cujus vocem lubentissime audiret, Cic. Arch. 9: nemo in convivio ejus (Attici) aliud acroama audivit, quam anagnosten, id. Att. 14, 1: non solum spectator, sed actor et acroama, Cic. Sest. 54: festivum, id. Verr. 2, 4, 22. Cf. Smith’s Antiq., and Becker’s Gall. 3, p. 203 (2d ed.).

ācrŏāmătārĭus, a, um, adj. [acroama], belonging to a musical or reading entertainment: SER. ACROAMAT. GRAEC., i. e. serva acroamataria Graeca, Inscr. Orell. 2885.

ācrŏāmătĭcus, a, um, adj., read in the old edd. of Gell. 20, 5, where the MSS. give, in the same sense, acroaticus, q. v.

ācrŏāsis, is, f., = ἀκρόασις (a hearing, a listening to), the discourse delivered before an assembly, public lecture (cf. the use of contio among Eng. and collegium among Germ. scholars, for discourse, etc.): ut eas vel in acroasi audeam legere, in a public lecture, Cic. Att. 15, 17, 2: Callias acroasin fecit, Vitr. 10, 22: plurimas acroases fecit, Suet. Gram. 2 (al. ἀκροάσεις).

ācrŏātĭcus, a, um, adj., = ἀκροατικός, designed for hearing only, esoteric (opp. ἐξωτερικός), in the Aristotelian philosophy, acc. to the interpreters, Gell. 20, 5.

Ācrŏcĕraunĭa, ōrum, n. [fr. ἄκρις and κεραυνός; pr. Thunder-Heights], a very rocky promontory in Epirus, running out into the Ionian Sea, now Glossa, called by the Italians Linguetta (the mountain to which it belongs was called Ceraunii montes or Ceraunia; see this art.): infamīs scopulos Acroceraunia, Hor. C. 1, 3, 20; the same in sing.: promontorium Acroceraunium, Plin. 3, 11, 15, § 97; for any dangerous place: haec tibi sint Syrtes; haec Acroceraunia vita, Ov. R. Am. 739.

ăcrŏchordon, ŏnis, f., = ἀκροχορδών, a kind of wart, Cels. 5, 28, 14.

acrŏcōlēfĭum, ĭi, n., = ἀκροκωλήφιον, the upper part of the foot of a swine, Veg. 6, 1, 2.

acrŏcōlĭon, ĭi, n., = ἀκροκώλιον, i. q. acro, Cael. Aur. Acut. 1, 11; cf. Veg. 2, 47, 1.

Ācrŏcŏrinthus (-us), i, f., Ἀκροκόρινθος, the citadel of Corinth, situated on a height, from which the two seas could be seen, the Aegean and Ionian, Mel. 2, 3, 7; Plin. 4, 4, 5, § 11; Liv. 33, 31 fin.; 34, 50, 8; Stat. Th. 7, 106.

acrŏcŏrĭum, ii, n., a kind of onion, Plin. 19, 5, 30, § 95.

acrŏlĭthus, a, um, adj., = ἀκρόλιθος (of stone at the extremity): statuae, statues whose extremities only consisted of marble, the remainder of wood, Treb. Poll. XXX. Tyr. c. 32 (in Vitr. 2, 8, 11 written as Greek); cf. Müll. Arch. § 48, 1; Winckelm. Hist. Art. 1, 2, 17.

Ācron, ōnis, m.

  1. I. A king of the Caeninenses, who, in the war with the Romans on account of the rape of the Sabines, was slain by Romulus, Prop. 4, 10, 7.
  2. II. A Greek slain by Mezentius, Verg. A. 10, 719.
  3. III. Helenius Acron, a commentator on Terence, Horace, and perh. Persius; cf. Teuffel, Rom. Lit. II. § 370.

Acrōnĭus lacus, a part of Lake Constance, now the Ueberlingen Lake, Mel. 3, 2, 8.

Acrŏnŏma saxa, an unknown place in Lower Italy, Cic. Att. 13, 40, 2.

ăcrŏpŏdĭum, i, n. [ἄκρος, extreme, and πούς, foot], the pedestal of a statue, Hyg. F. 88.

ācror, ōris, m. [2. acer], = acritudo, Fulg. Cont. Verg. init.

Acrŏta, ae, m., king of the Albani, brother of Romulus Silvius, Ov. M. 14, 617.

ăcrōtērĭa, ōrum, n., = ἀκρωτήρια, the projecting or extreme part of a thing.

  1. I. Of a harbor, Vitr. 5, 12.
  2. II. In architecture, the projecting parts of a pediment, serving as a support for figures or statues, Vitr. 3, 5, 12 sq.; cf. Müll. Arch. § 284.

acrōzȳmus, a, um, adj., = ἀκρόζυμος, slightly leavened, Isid. Or. 20, 2, 15.