Meanings
proper noun
- archaicArchaic form of Achaea.
1 more example
The inhabitants of the Grecian town of Scione, in the Thracian peninsula called Pallene or Pellene, accounted themselves the offspring of the Pellenians from Achæa in Peloponnesus, who had served under Agamemnon before Troy, and who on their return from the siege had been driven on the spot by a storm and there settled.
1905, George Grote, “Fall of Troy”, in Rossiter Johnson, editor, The Great Events by Famous Historians, volume 1
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