Achaemenes (character)

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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