Achaemenes

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

Ăchaemĕnēs, is, m., = Ἀχαιμένης,

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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