Acron (disambiguation)
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Acron is used to mean a number of different things:
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[edit] 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.[1][2][3]
- Helenius Acron, the 2nd century commentator
[edit] Places
- Acron, Florida, a ghost town in the United States
[edit] Science
- Prostomium or "acron", the first body segment of Annelid worms
- Acrosome or "acron", the anterior part of a spermatozoon
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This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).