Acte
the concubine of Nero, was a freedwoman, and originally a slave purchased from Asia Minor. Nero loved her far more than his wife Octavia, and at one time thought of marrying her; whence he pretended that she was descended from king Attalus.
She survived Nero. (
Tac. Ann. 13.12,
46,
14.2;
Suet. Nero 28,
50;
D. C. 61.7.)