Alcon

, a famous archer, who one day saw his son attacked by a serpent, and aimed at him so dexterously that he killed the beast without hurting his son.――A silversmith. Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 13 , fable 5.――A son of Hippocoon. Pausanias , bk. 3 , ch. 14 .――A surgeon under Claudius, who gained much money by his profe ion, in curing hernias and fractures.――A son of Mars.――A son of Amycus. These two last were at the chase of the Calydonian boar. Hyginus , fable 173. ♦ Alcyŏna , a pool of Greece, whose depth the emperor Nero attempted in vain to find. Pausanias , bk. 2 , ch. 37 . ♦ Resorted into proper alphabetical order