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 Translation for 'Achaeans' from English to Russian
NOUN   an Achaean | Achaeans
ист.этн.
ахейцы {мн}
Achaeans
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Translation for 'Achaeans' from English to Russian

Achaeans
ахейцы {мн}ист.этн.
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Usage Examples English
  • He was not honored for his victory by the Achaeans and legendarily cursed the Achaeans to never win the Olympics for that and the Achaeans did not have an olympic winner until Sostratus of Pellene won the race.
  • They viewed themselves as dominant over the Achaeans by right of conquest.
  • Once this had become clear, Philip attempted to free up his forces by handing the city of Argos over to Nabis of Sparta, but Nabis then engineered a revolution in the city and organised a conference with Flamininus, Attalus and the Achaeans at Mycenae, at which he agreed to stop attacking the Achaeans and to supply troops to the Romans.
  • Ceryneia was one of the twelve towns of the ancient Achaeans. The city Kyrenia in Cyprus was settled by Achaeans, probably from Ceryneia.
  • While there is evidence showing that the wider region of Kyrenia has been populated before, the city was built by the Greeks named Achaeans from the Peloponnese after the Trojan War (1300 BC).

  • Among the lesser Achaeans very few reached their homes.
  • Xenarchus was sent to Rome as an ambassador by the Achaeans, for the purpose of renewing their alliance with the Romans, and of superintending the progress of the negotiations with reference to the Lacedaemonians.
  • The Achaeans somehow managed to persuade the seer/warrior to reveal the weakness of Troy.
  • The Polyrrhenians then used the Aetolian interference in Crete as justification for asking Philip and the Achaeans for assistance against their common enemy.
  • Greek territory and its inhabitants, the Achaeans, one of the names that Homer used to refer to the Greeks in the "Iliad".

  • The Achaeans are overwhelmed and routed, the wall's gate is broken, and Hector charges in.
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