Meanings
achates1
- pluralplural of achate
Achates2
- archaicpoeticA trusty comrade.
It was the full moon of the "Captain" of industry and his Achates, the muckraker. Pragmatism, the one force in American thought since the Spanish War, certainly did not bequeath men a deeper feeling and reverence for life, […]
1979, William Wasserstrom, Van Wyck Brooks, the critic and his critics, page 211 more example
[He] established a kind of hunting colony at Tring, in Hertfordshire, where, with Colonel Charritie as his Achates, Jem Morgan as his huntsman, and "some of the Browns" to look after things, his lordship had kennels of both foxhounds and harriers […]
1871, The Field Quarterly Magazine and Review, volume 2, page 152
Origin
From the "fidus Achates" (faithful Achates) of Virgil's Aeneid, the constant companion of Aeneas in his wanderings after the fall of Troy.
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