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- noun Plural form of
Achaian .
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_The Greeks are also referred to as Achaians, Argives, Danaans;
The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes
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The Hittite name for the invading foreigners is very close to Homer's name for his Greeks - Achaians - and the Hittite names for their harassed ally are very close to "Troy" and "Ilios," Homer's names for the city.
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The oracle there--called by the Achaians as Pythia--is reluctant to take her, but when Gull has a vision of black ships, Pythia knows she has found her replacement.
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The Hittite name for the invading foreigners is very close to Homer's name for his Greeks - Achaians - and the Hittite names for their harassed ally are very close to "Troy" and "Ilios," Homer's names for the city.
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The oracle there--called by the Achaians as Pythia--is reluctant to take her, but when Gull has a vision of black ships, Pythia knows she has found her replacement.
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But he came much nearer to the character either of a King or of a Tyrant than to that of a Federal President like the General of the Achaians ..
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Achaians, though it did not remove from the Peloponnese, yet removed in former time from its own land and dwells now in that which was not its own.
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Dolopians, Magnesians, Achaians, and all those who dwell in the coast - region of Thrace, of these various nations I estimate that there were thirty myriads. 1172 These myriads then added to those from Asia make a total sum of two hundred and sixty-four myriads of fighting men and in addition to these sixteen hundred and ten. 1173 186.
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Achaians, and in former times they were divisions of the Ionians.
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Achaians in fight, and Aigion and Rhypes and Patreis and Phareis and Olenos, where is the great river Peiros, and Dyme and
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