It may be related to the word Achaean, meaning Greek. From Wordnik.com. [Special Report: Ekron Identity Confirmed] Reference
On the morrow call the Achaean lords to the assembly, and declare thy saying to all, and take the gods to witness. From Wordnik.com. [The Odyssey] Reference
Take my advice, call the Achaean heroes in assembly to-morrow — lay your case before them, and call heaven to bear you witness. From Wordnik.com. [The Odyssey] Reference
Take my advice, call the Achaean heroes in assembly to-morrow morning -- lay your case before them, and call heaven to bear you witness. From Wordnik.com. [The Odyssey] Reference
Achilles, Hector, and the Achaean captains strode off. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
By the gods of Achaean worship and arms of Achaean might. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven against Thebes] Reference
Achilles is addressing the troops — both Trojans and Achaean. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
“But he is the Achaean from the turin drama?” asked Daeman. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
A score more of black ships put out to sea from the Achaean camp. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
Achilles has killed Agamemnon and taken command of the Achaean armies. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
Then slaughter as many more as there are appetites in the Achaean ranks. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
“Can you carry me straight back to the Achaean camp with your magic?”. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
He used isegoria to describe the state of affairs prevailing in the Achaean. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Achaean land, and Aeetes set not before us some other contest worse than this. From Wordnik.com. [The Argonautica] Reference
“Set up another to protect the Achaean encampment you see along the coast.”. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
I watch as Aeneas slaughters the carefree Achaean twins, Orsilochus and Crethon. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
I have used it because it conveys to many people a less localized concept than Achaean. From Wordnik.com. [The King Must Die]
Book Seven was an exciting duel between Hector and the Achaean giant, but nothing happened. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
B.C., with a great number of other Achaean politicians, he was brought to Italy as a hostage. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Achaean chariots near Diomedes and Nestor explode in a tumble of horseflesh and flying bodies. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
Of all the great Achaean captains, this bearded man is the softest spoken and the most devious. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
Greece, each city in the Aetolian and Achaean leagues had an equal vote, and the states in the American. From Wordnik.com. [EQUALITY] Reference
I wish to give my former foes, the Trojans, joy, and on the Achaean host impose a return that they will rue. From Wordnik.com. [The Trojan Women] Reference
Let him woo some Achaean girl far away among his own folk; let maidenhood be mine and the home of my parents. From Wordnik.com. [The Argonautica] Reference
Nestor recommends a war counsel with Diomedes, Odysseus, Little Ajax, and some of the other Achaean captains. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
Let him woo some Achaean girl fair away among his own folk; let maidenhood be mine and the home of my parents. From Wordnik.com. [The Argonautica] Reference
The origin of this tenure is Greek, and it was probably first adopted in Rome after the conquest of the Achaean. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876] Reference
While the Homer we know professedly commemorates the deeds of Achaean heroes, everything about them is non-Hellenic. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference
Wherefore he was sending them, as they desired, to the Achaean land at the bidding of their father -- a long journey. From Wordnik.com. [The Argonautica] Reference
He shall drive his conquering chariot to the Capitoline height triumphant over Corinth, glorious in Achaean slaughter. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
The Achaean is radiating heat and fury in the infrared, looking all the world like a warrior made out of pulsing lava. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
“Do you know what will happen to me, Noble Hector, when you die your noble death and become food for the Achaean dogs?”. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
Nestor son of Neleus and the oldest of the Achaean captains, “the clear speaker of Pylos,” given to long-winded rants in council. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
Mahnmut got to his feet on the cracked shell, better to see across the plumed heads of the Achaean heroes into the ranks of the Trojans. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
Sing how the unsightly black fuzz, like the Persian legions of Darius, sweeps over the Achaean mainland of girls barely into their teens!. From Wordnik.com. [Middlesex]
Would that I had been slain by the swift shafts of Artemis before I had set eyes on him, before Chalciope's sons reached the Achaean land. From Wordnik.com. [The Argonautica] Reference
There is a mist of blood in the air around shining Diomedes and a heap of corpses on each side of the slashing, hacking, stabbing Achaean. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
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