Achæmenes

A form of Achaemenes — The founder of the Achaemenid dynasty.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. obsoleteObsolete form of Achaemenes.

    As Son of Ormuzd we find the name Dshemshid : apparently the same as he whom the Greeks call Achæmenes, whose descendants are called Pishdadians — a race to which Cyrus was reported to belong.

    1857, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, J. Sibree, edited by Henry G. Bohn, Lectures on the Philosophy of History, part 1, section 3, chapter I, page 188
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