Actuator (aurunker)
Aktor ( Greek Ἄκτωρ ) is a figure from Roman mythology .
According to the representation in Virgil's Aeneid, the actor was an aurunker . His lance was captured by Turnus , who later swung it boastfully. At Juvenal , the expression Actoris spolium (ie “Aktors prey”) literally stands for bad prey.
literature
- Julius Adolf Bernhard : Actuator 9 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 218 ( digitized version ).
- Friedrich Hiller von Gaertringen : Aktor 21. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 1217.