Actor

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

Actor, ŏris, m.

I A companion of Aeneas , Verg. A. 9, 500.—

II An Auruncan , ib. 12, 94; 96.

III —Hence, Actŏrĭdes , ae, patron. m., son or grandson of Actor: his son , Menoetius , Ov. F. 2, 39; his grandson , Patroclus , Ov. Tr. 1, 9, 29; id. M. 13, 273; Erithos , id. ib. 5, 79.—In plur.: Actŏrĭdae , i. e. Eurytus and Cleatus , sons of Actor , King of Phthia , id. ib. 8, 308.

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