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Achaemenes
(character)&o=10616
Achaemenes (character)&o=10616
Achaemenes (character)
A man called
Achaemenes
is a minor character in
Virgil
's
Aeneid
. His character seems to have been chosen by Virgil treating the
Persian
name
Achaemenes
as
Greek
and extracting a meaning "he who waits with affliction".
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