Acron (disambiguation)

Acron (disambiguation)

Acron is used to mean a number of different things:

People

* Acron son of Xenon, an ancient Greek physician
* Acron or Acro, a king of the Caeninenses, whom Romulus slew in battle. Romulus dedicated the arms of Acron to Jupiter Feretrius as spolia opima. Livy men­tions the circumstance without giving the name of the king. [Plut. "Rom." 16] [Serv. "ad. Virg. Aen." vi. 860] [Livy i. 10]
* Helenius Acron, the 2nd century commentator

Places

*Acron, Florida, a ghost town in the United States

cience

*Prostomium or "acron", the first body segment of Annelid worms
*Acrosome or "acron", the anterior part of a spermatozoon

ee also

*Akron

References


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