Achilles

Definitions

1. A mythical semidivine hero, the son of Peleus by the nereid Thetis, and prince of the Myrmidons, who features in the Iliad as a central character and the foremost warrior of the Achaean (Greek) camp.
   Greek
2. A male given name from Ancient Greek.
   rare
3. The Greek camp Trojan asteroid 588 Achilles.

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Examples

“Achilles! a drayman, a porter, a very camel.”

“Achilles’ wrath, to Greece the direful spring⟳ Of woes unnumber’d, heavenly goddess, sing⟳!”

“If once the lamentation is heard, it will ring⟳ out again, of the short-lived Achilles, of the leaf-like change⟳ and vicissitude of the human race⟳, of the decay of the heroic age.”

“In the last⟳ third of the Iliad, Achilles’ beloved companion, Patroklos, and his bitter enemy, Hektor, die⟳ wearing Achilles’ armor, their deaths prefiguring Achilles’ own⟳.”

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