acus

How to use acus in a sentence

• Family names usually terminate in -ĭd (after Latin patronymics, such as acĭd, sons or descendants of acus).

  The New Gresham Encyclopedia | Various

• In the same Play Xanthias bids acus answer him by Jove, Ὅς ἡμὶν ἐστὶν ὁμομαστιγίας.

  A Short View of the Immorality, and Profaneness of the English Stage | Jeremy Collier

• Patroclus alone sat opposite to him in silence, waiting upon the descendant of acus when he should cease to sing.

  The Iliad of Homer (1873) | Homer

• Thus he spake, and he aroused the spirit within his breast; and he hastened to run to the ships to Achilles, the grandson of acus.

  The Iliad of Homer (1873) | Homer

• Rhadamanthus judged the Asiatics, Æ´acus the Europeans; and when a very difficult case arose it was referred to Minos.

  The Student's Mythology | Catherine Ann White