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Achæan, a. and n.|əˈkiːən|
Also Achaian |əˈkaɪən|, Achean.
[f. L. Achæus, a. Gr. ἀχαιός, f. ἀχαία Achæa.]
A. adj. Of or belonging to Achæa, a name of varying application, in Homeric usage applied to Greece generally, later to a district of the northern Peloponnesus.
B. n. An inhabitant of Achæa (or Greece).
1567G. Turberville tr. Ovid's Her. iii. 71 In all the Achaian soyle. 1607Topsell Foure-footed Beastes 126 The Achaian Harts are said to haue their gall in their tailes. Ibid. 315 The Achæans had this degre in high estimat. 1676Hobbes tr. Homer's Iliad ii. 28 The rest That in the Army of th' Achæans were. Ibid. 33 These were the Leaders of th' Achean forces. 1715Pope Iliad ii. 834 The Achaians, Myrmidons, Helleneans bear. 1797Encycl. Brit. I. 63 Achaia was..taken for all those countries that joined in the Achæan league, reduced by the Romans to a province. 1833Penny Cycl. I. 82/1 The history of the Achæans forms an inconsiderable part of the general history of Greece till about b.c. 251. 1925G. Murray Eumenides p. viii, That glorified Achaean chieftain who was King of gods and men in the ordinary Homeric tradition. 1956J. Forsdyke Greece before Homer iv. 83 There is not yet any reason beyond the resemblance in the place-name to connect the people of Ahhiyawa with the Achaians of Greece. |