Acace'sius
(
*)Akakh/sios), a surname of Hermes (Callim.
Hym. in Dian. 143), for which Homer (
Hom. Il. 16.185;
Od. 24.10) uses the form
ἀκάκητα (
ἀκακήτης). Some writers derive it from the Arcadian town of Acacesium, in which he was believed to have been brought up by king Acacus; others from
κακὸς, and assign to it the meaning: the god who cannot be hurt, or who does not hurt.
The same attribute is also given to Prometheus (
Hes. Th. 614), whence it may be inferred that its meaning is that of benefactor or deliverer from evil. (Compare Spanh.
ad Callim. l.c.; Spitzner,
ad Il. 16.185.)
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