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