ăchāia — Lewis & Short
ăchāiaor (in poets) ăchāĭa (quadrisyl.), ae, f.*)axai/a.
I The province of Achaia, in the northern part of the Peloponnesus, on the Gulf of Corinth, earlier called Aegialea (maritime country), Mel. 2, 3, 4; Plin. 4, 5, 6.—Hence,
B In gen. (cf. the Homeric *)axaioi/), for Greece, opposite to Troja:
et quot Troja tulit, vetus et quot Achaia formas,Prop. 2, 21, 53; cf. Ov. M. 8, 268; id. Her. 17, 209 al.—
II After the destruction of Corinth by Mummius, B. C. 146, Greece proper became a Rom. prov. under the name of Achaia.— Hence, ăchāĭăs, ădis, adj., An Achaean or Greek woman, Ov. H. 3, 71.—ăchāĭ-cus, a, um, adj., Achaean, Grecian.
I Poet., opp. to Trojan:
manus,Verg. A. 5, 623:
ignis,Hor. C. 1, 15, 35.—
II Belonging to the Roman province Achaia:
homines,Cic. Att. 1, 13, 1:
negotium,id. Fam. 4, 4, 2:
concilium,Liv. 43, 17, 4.—Hence L. Mummius obtained, for the destruction of Corinth and the complete subjugation of Greece, the honorary title of Achaïcus. Vell. 1, 13, 2; Plin. 35, 4, 8, § 24;
and so as surname of one of his descendants: Mummia Achaica,Suet. Galb. 3.—ăchāĭs, ĭdis, adj., f.
I Achaean, Grecian:
urbes,Ov. M. 5, 306.—
II Subst., = Achaia, Achaia, Greece, Ov. M. 5, 577; 7, 504.— ăchāĭus, a, um, adj.: Achaean, Grecian (poet. for Achaïcus and Achaeus):
castra,Verg. A. 2, 462; so Sil. 14, 5; 15, 306.