Define Actaeon at Dictionary.com. Actaeon. Actaeon. a hunter who, for having seen Diana bathing, was changed by her into a stag and was torn to pieces by his own hounds.
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Your bloodhounds bay at the copper
creek, your velvet cape’s aloft
in the chiaroscuro breeze, you’re near, nearer,
hieing, heying, I’m falling, failing,
gashed, gutted, kneed-up,
muddy and galled—call me
Actaeon...." Poem by Jonathan Galassi (Poetry Foundation)
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