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Ἀχαιός

achaios

Achaean, the Achaeans, Greeks

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Where it lives

Iliad 286 · 25.65/10k
Trojan Women 11 · 15.54/10k
Rhesus 7 · 13.02/10k
Hecuba 9 · 12.57/10k
Odyssey 64 · 7.36/10k
Ajax 5 · 6.36/10k
Philoctetes 5 · 5.68/10k
Helen 5 · 5.11/10k
Anabasis 21 · 3.74/10k
Agamemnon 2 · 2.47/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 2 · 2.41/10k
Electra 2 · 2.3/10k

Densest 12 of 26 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

1. Ἀχαιός · Achaios

Achaean

Achaean, Hom., etc.: hence as Subst.,

1 the Achaeans, Greeks

Ἀχαιοί, οἱ, the Achaeans, in Hom. for the Greeks generally, Il. 2.235, etc.

2 Achaia, the province of Greece

Ἀχαΐα, ἡ, Achaia in Peloponnese, Th., etc.; under the Romans, the province of Greece.

2. ἄχαιος · achaios

perh. = ἀχήν, IG 3.1385.

In the wild

Ἀχαιοὶ · Achaioi Aeschylus, Agamemnon 320
Ἀχαιοῖς · Achaiois Aeschylus, Agamemnon 646–649
Ἀχαιοῦ · Achaiou Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 321–328
Ἀχαιοῖς · Achaiois Aristotle, Politics 1269b (DIORISIS sentence 659)
Ἀχαιοὶ · Achaioi Aristotle, Politics 1303a (DIORISIS sentence 1872)
Ἀχαιοὶ · Achaioi Aristotle, Politics 1303a (DIORISIS sentence 1872)

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Where it came from

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