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Achivus

Achaean

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Where it lives

Epitaphia heroum qui bello Troico interfuerunt 1 · 8.33/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
Troades 2 · 2.94/10k
Achilleis 2 · 2.78/10k
Argonautica 10 · 2.69/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.4/10k
Epistulae 2 · 2.02/10k
Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
Medea 1 · 1.77/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
Thebais 10 · 1.6/10k

Densest 12 of 33 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ăchīvus — Lewis & Short

ăchīvus, a, um (

I gen. plur. Achivom, Verg. A. 11, 266), adj. fr. Achaeus, with the Digamma, Achaefos, Achifus, Achivus, Achaean, Grecian (v. Achaia): tellus, Ov. Pont. 1, 4, 33: castra, id. H. 1, 21.—Hence, ăchīvi, the Greeks, Cic. Div. 1, 14: quidquid delirant reges plectuntur Achivi, whatever wrongs the (Grecian) kings are guilty of (before Troy) their subjects must suffer for; but it soon became a general proverb: whatever errors the great commit, the people must atone for, Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 14.

In the wild

Achivos Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 6.10
Achivi Statius, Thebais 3.608
Achivum Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 3.86
Achivis Cicero, Pro P. Sestio 120
Achivos Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.600
Achivi Claudian, In Rufinum 2.1.425

6 of 79 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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