acus

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• Family names usually terminate in -ĭd (after Latin patronymics, such as acĭd, sons or descendants of acus).

• In the same Play Xanthias bids acus answer him by Jove, Ὅς ἡμὶν ἐστὶν ὁμομαστιγίας.

• Patroclus alone sat opposite to him in silence, waiting upon the descendant of acus when he should cease to sing.

• Thus he spake, and he aroused the spirit within his breast; and he hastened to run to the ships to Achilles, the grandson of acus.

• Rhadamanthus judged the Asiatics, Æ´acus the Europeans; and when a very difficult case arose it was referred to Minos.