Actius. Hence Actian Years, an era commencing from the battle of Actium, called the Era of Augustus.

Virgil intimates them to have been instituted by Æneas; from that passage, Æn. III. v. 280.

Actiique Iliacis celebramus littora ludis. Æn. III. 280.

But this he only does by way of compliment to Augustus: attributing that to the hero from whom he descended, which was done by the emperor himself; as is observed by Servius.

ACTINIÆ, in Zoology, a genus belonging to the order of Vermes mollusca, called Animal Flowers, and Sea Anemones. See VERMES.in Mineralogy. See Mineralogy Index.