person
Acmon
A companion of Diomedes from Pleuron in Aetolia, whose defiance of Venus turned him and his fellows into swan-like birds.
Reading notes
- Metamorphoses §14.453 Pleuronian Acmon
Acmon of Pleuron (a town of Aetolia, Diomedes's homeland); his rash defiance of Venus turns him and his comrades into swan-like birds -- the 'Diomedean birds' said to haunt islands off Apulia.