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Achaemenes

Achaemenes · m

the ancestor of the old Persian kings

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What it meant

ăchaemĕnēs — Lewis & Short

ăchaemĕnēs, is, m., = *)axaime/nhs,

I the ancestor of the old Persian kings, grandfather of Cyrus: dives Achaemenes, poet. for great or Asiatic wealth in gen., Hor. C. 2, 12, 21.

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