Achates

English-Latin

Achates. n. pr.

1. Aeneas' companion and armor-bearer in the Aeneid.
   • Achates (-ae, masc.)

Latin-English

Ăchāt|ēs, -ae. (aˈka.tes) masc.

1. Achates, Aeneas’ armor-bearer.
2. A river in Sicily, perhaps that now called Dirillo.
3. a~. masc. or fem. The agate.

[Greek ἀχάτης achatēs.]

Loci

Cicero

not found in Cicero

Classical

• αʹ Ovid, Fasti 3.603-608:

Lītŏrĕ | dōtā|lī sō|lō cŏmĭ|tātŭs Ă|chātē sēcrē|tūm nū|dō || dūm pĕdĕ | cārpĭt ĭ|tēr, āspĭcĭt | ērrān|tēm, nēc | crēdĕrĕ | sūstĭnĕt | Ānnām ēssĕ: quĭd | īn Lătĭ|ōs || īllă vĕn|īrĕt ă|grōs? dūm sē|c(um) Āenē|ās, "Ān|n(a) ēst!" ēx|clāmăt Ă|chātēs.

Walking a secluded path on the beach his wife had endowed him, with only Achates for company, he catches sight of Anna wandering, and can't bring himself to believe it is her. While Aeneas is thinking to himself, "Why would she have come to the fields of Latium?" Achates cries out, "It's Anna!"