Actaeon

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Proper noun

Actaeon n

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Ellobiidae – a synonym of Microtralia, the salt marsh snails.

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English
Actaeon Changed into a Stag (Dianae aspectu Actaeon in cervum), engraving by Antonio Tempesta

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἀκταίων (Aktaíōn).

Proper noun

Actaeon

  1. (Greek mythology) Grandson of Cadmus, transformed into a stag by Artemis in book III of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
    • 1979, Eric S. Rabkin, Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories, Oxford University Press (→ISBN), page 62:
      Amid so much prosperity, it was one of his grandsons, Actaeon, who first brought distress to Cadmus, when antlers, foreign to his human shape, sprouted from the youth's forehead, and his hounds gorged themselves on their master's blood.

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