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Acron

a king of the Caeninenses, whom Romulus himself slew in battle. He dedicated the arms of Acron to Jupiter Feretrius as Spolia Opima. (See Dict. of Ant. p. 893.) Livy mentions the circumstance without giving the name of the king. (Plut. Rom. 16; Serv. ad Virg. Aen. 6.860; Liv. 1.10.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.