ăcastus — Lewis & Short
ăcastus, i, m., = *)/akastos.
I Son of Pelias, king of Thessaly, husband of Astydamia or Cretheis, and father of Laodamia, Ov. M. 8, 306; 11, 410 al.—
II The name of one of Cicero's slaves, Cic. Att. 7, 1 al.
The corpus record — Latin
Acastus
Acastus · m
Son of Pelias
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Medea 3 · 5.3/10k
- Argonautica 6 · 1.61/10k
- Epistulae ad Familiares 6 · 0.52/10k
- Letters to Atticus 5 · 0.41/10k
- Epistulae 1 · 0.39/10k
- Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k
- Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
- Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- Acasto Cicero, Letters to Atticus 7.1.1
- Acastum Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 1.153
- Acaste Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 1.164
- Acastus Seneca, Medea 1
- Acastus Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 14.5.1
- Acastum Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 1.485
6 of 25 attestations shown.
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
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