in Ancient Geography, a town of Sicily, whose inhabitants were called Acreenses. It stood to the south of Syracuse, at the distance of 24 miles, near the place now called the monastery of Santa Maria d'Arcia, on an eminence, as appears from Silius Italicus. The Syracusans were the founders of it, according to Thucydides, 70 years after the building of Syracuse, or 665 before Christ. Hence the epithet Acracus.