Crossword clues for achaean
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Achaean \A*ch[ae]"an\, Achaian \A*cha"ian\a. [L. Achaeus, Achaius; Gr. ?.] Of or pertaining to Achaia in Greece; also, Grecian. -- n. A native of Achaia; a Greek. [1913 Webster] ||
Wiktionary
a. Of or relating to Achaea. n. An inhabitant or a resident of Achaea.
a. (archaic form of Achaean English) n. (archaic form of Achaean English)
Usage examples of "achaean".
But she has been assigned, in the division of the booty, to the king who commands the Achaean army, Agamemnon, and he refuses to give her up.
Her father prays for help to Apollo, who sends a plague that devastates the Achaean camp.
Achilles, leader of the Myrmidons, one of the largest contingents of the Achaean army, summons the chieftains to an assembly.
Patroclus, sent by Achilles to find out how things stand in the Achaean camp, brings back the news and also pleads with Achilles to relent.
Achilles is a war between the assembled armies of the Achaean cities and Troy, a rich, fortified city on the coast of Asia Minor near the Hellespont, the narrow western outlet of the long passage from the Black Sea to the Aegean.
He is a formidable warrior, formidable enough so that in Book 7 no Achaean volunteers to face him in single combat until they are tongue-lashed by Menelaus and then by Nestor.
Zeus is fulfilled: the Achaeans are penned up in their fortifications, the first Achaean ship is fired.
Achilles has come as close as he ever could to saying that he was wrong, but Agamemnon, even now, tries to justify himself as he addresses not only Achilles but also the army as a whole, which, as he is fully aware, blames him for the Achaean losses.
As the events are described we see all the great Achaean heroes, familiar to us from battle-scenes, locked now not in combat but in the fierce effort of peaceful contest.
Priam outside the tent, for any Achaean coming into the tent and seeing Priam would tell Agamemnon.
And all day long they appeased the god with song, raising a ringing hymn to the distant archer god who drives away the plague, those young Achaean warriors singing out his power, and Apollo listened, his great heart warm with joy.
Come, grant the Trojans victory after victory till the Achaean armies pay my dear son back, building higher the honor he deserves!
But look, the man who saw it has every claim to be the best, the bravest Achaean we can field.
He commanded heralds to cry out loud and clear and summon the long-haired Achaean troops to battle.
That day ranks of Trojans, ranks of Achaean fighters sprawled there side-by-side, facedown in the dust.