Actor

A companion of Aeneas,1 who is probably the same person who in another passage2 is called an Auruncan, and of whose conquered lance Turnus made a boast.

This story seems to have given rise to the proverbial saying Actoris spolium,3 for any poor spoil in general.

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References

Notes

  1. Virgil. Aeneid ix, 500.
  2. ibid. xii, 94.
  3. Juvenal, ii, 100.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.