Acoe
Acoe, "hearing," in the New Testament sense (Rom. x. 17). "Faith cometh by hearing." The nurse of Fido [faith]. Her daughter is Meditation. (Greek, akoe, "hearing.")
With him [Faith] his nurse went, careful Acoë,
Whose hands first from his mother's womb did take him,
And ever since have fostered tenderly.
--Phin. Fletcher: The Purple Island, ix. (1633).
The Reader's Handbook of Famous Names in Fiction, Allusions, References, Proverbs, Plots, Stories and Poems
By The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer
A New Edition Revised Throughout and Greatly Enlarged
Philadelphia
J. B. Lippincott Co.
1899
Rutgers University Libraries
PN43.B847R 1899
Omnipædia Polyglotta
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