I.a kind of sea-fish with a pointed snout, the hornpike or gar-pike (Gr. βελόνη): “acus sive belone unus piscium, etc.,” Plin. 9, 51, 76, § 166: “et satius tenues ducere credis acos,” Mart. 10, 37, 6; cf. Plin. 32, 11, 53, § 145, where belonae again occurs. (Some read una for unus in the passage from Plin., and acūs for acos in Mart., as if these forms belonged to 1. acus.)
ăcus , i, m. 1. acus,