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Meanings of achaean in English

Portuguese
aqueu

The ancient Greek inhabitants of Achaea.

aqueu

A member of one of four linguistic divisions of the prehistoric Greeks.

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Examples for "Achaian"
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Yet the career of the Achaian League was not an inglorious one.
American Political Ideas Viewed from the Standpoint of Universal...
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At dawn the Achaian leaders resolved to try again the fortunes of war.
The Story of Troy
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There are many Achaian maidens in Hellas and Phthia, daughters of city-protecting princes.
Primitive Love and Love-Stories
4
James Madison studied the Achaian League and other ancient combinations.
George Washington
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And the wise Nestor arose, and upbraided all the Achaian chiefs: Fie on us!
The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10) / Stories from the Classic...
Usage of achaean in English
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The ancient Achaean palaces were becoming the ruins which we still behold.
Homer and His Age
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The city was then induced by Philopoemen to join the Achaean league.
The History of Rome, Book III / From the Union of Italy to the S...
3
The gods were supposed to ravish feckless girls, not hardened Achaean warriors.
Discord's apple
4
Social war; the war made by the Aetolian League on the Achaean League.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 02 / (From the Ris...
5
The sword was the destroyer of the Lycian Confederacy and the Achæan League.
The American Union Speaker
6
The remnant of the Achaean army had taken refuge in CORINTH.
Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D.
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All the Peloponnesus is included in the Achaean League, which attains its apogee.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 02 / (From the Ris...
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The Achaean chiefs then hold council, and Agamemnon sends the embassy to Achilles.
Homer and His Age
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A third Achaean leader is still at sea, alive, but hindered from returning.
The Odyssey / Rendered into English prose for the use of those w...
10
The Aetolian League was a confederation of tribes instead of cities, like the Achaean.
A Smaller History of Greece: from the Earliest Times to the Roma...
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This league of the Achaean cities was strictly a colonization.
The History of Rome, Book I / The Period Anterior to the Aboliti...
12
In Achaean Pharae he found some thirty squared stones, named each after a god.
Myth, Ritual and Religion, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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The Achaean league received its first birth from Achaeus, and its second from Aratus.
The Federalist Papers
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But there are hosts of other Achaean princes, look -
The Odyssey
15
Lady of Guardians took as her husband the Long-Lived Achaean.
Discord's apple
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Alone Philoctetes in the Trojan land surpassed me with the bow in our Achaean archery.
The Odyssey of Homer
Translations for achaean
Portuguese
aqueuaqueia
Achaean through the time