Actaeon

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. özel isim Grandson of Cadmus, transformed into a stag by Artemis in book III of Ovid's Metamorphoses.

   “Amid so much prosperity, it was one of his grandsons, Actaeon, who first brought distress to Cadmus, when antlers, foreign to his human shape, sprouted from the youth's forehead, and his hounds gorged themselves on their master's blood.”

2. isim A cuckold.

   “He once lost a friend by kindly inquiring after his wife, who had made an Acteon of him, first by the head ornament presented, and secondly by sending him to the dogs in the way of pecuniary circumstances.”

3. fiil To cuckold.

   “[…] where vaine glorious Ixion Proclaymed, that he was the Minion of Juno, and had Acteoned Jupiter: for which arrogancie, Jupiter threw him to Hell, with this pictured vengeaunce.”