Acratus

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Acratus is a classical name attributed to the following individuals:

• Acratus was a freedman of Nero. He was sent by Nero in 64 AD to Asia and Achaea to plunder the temples and take away the statues of the gods.^[1][2]

• Acratus (Greek: Ἄκρατος) is also the name by which Pausanias called the hero Acratopotes.

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• This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).