Actaeon

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Actaeon n

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

• (genus): Actaeon ovulum (Microtralia ovulum)

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From Latin Actaeōn, from Ancient Greek Ἀκταίων (Aktaíōn).

• IPA^(key): /ækˈtiːən/, /ækˈtiːɒn/, /ækˈteɪən/, /ækˈteɪɒn/, /ˈæktɪən/

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.

• Acteon

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From Ancient Greek Ἀκταίων (Aktaíōn).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /akˈtae̯.oːn/, [äkˈt̪äe̯oːn]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /akˈte.on/, [äkˈt̪ɛːon]

Actaeōn m sg (genitive Actaeonis); third declension

1. (Greek mythology) Actaeon (grandson of Cadmus, transformed into a stag by Artemis).

Third-declension noun, singular only.

• “Actaeōn”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Actæōn in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette