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Actaeon

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acteonnoun	Alternative spelling of Actaeon. [(Greek mythology) Grandson of Cadmus, transformed into a stag by Artemis in book III of Ovid's Metamorphoses.]
draconoun	(African-American Vernacular) A short-barreled Kalashnikov-pattern rifle.
alectryonnoun	(Greek mythology) A youth charged by Ares to stand guard outside his door while the god indulged in illicit love with Aphrodite. He fell asleep and was transformed into a rooster as punishment.
laocoönnoun	(Greek mythology) A Trojan priest of Poseidon (or Apollo, depending on the author), whose rules he had defied (or whom he had otherwise offended), who tried to warn his fellow citizens against the Trojan horse. He was killed for this, along with his two sons, by giant snakes sent by Minerva (or Poseidon, or Apollo).
calydonian boarnoun	(Greek mythology) A giant boar, who was sent by the goddess Artemis to ravage the area of Calydon.
atalantanoun	(Greek mythology) A huntress and heroine in Greek mythology, renowned for her great speed and strength; depending on the version of the myth, either the daughter of Iasus (a prince of Arcadia) by Clymene or of King Schoeneus of Boeotia.
phoenixnoun	(mythology) A mythological bird, said to be the only one of its kind, which lives for 500 years and then dies by burning to ashes on a pyre of its own making, ignited by the sun. It then arises anew from the ashes.
adonisnoun	(Greek mythology) A beautiful young man loved by Aphrodite.
acoetesnoun	(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) One of several mythological characters.
itylusnoun	(Greek mythology) The son of Aedon.
centaurnoun	(Greek mythology) A mythical beast having a horse's body with a man's head and torso in place of the head and neck of the horse.
orionnoun	(astronomy) A constellation on the celestial equator close to Gemini and Taurus, containing the stars Betelgeuse and Rigel.
œnotrusnoun	(Greek mythology) One of the younger sons of Lycaon.
hermaphroditusnoun	(Greek mythology) The son of Hermes and Aphrodite who merged bodies with a naiad.
œclesnoun	(Greek mythology) Son of Mantius and father of Amphiaraus.
antenornoun	(Greek mythology) A son of Aesyetes
phobetornoun	In Ovid's Metamorphoses, one of the thousand sons of Somnus (Sleep).
aegipannoun	(Greek mythology) A goat-like creature resembling a satyr, sometimes portrayed as having a fish's tail.
alpheusnoun	A male given name, of mostly historical usage.
amphitryonnoun	(poetic) A host or entertainer.