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  2. May 20, 2024 · Spelling Bee Quiz Can you outdo past winners of the National Spelli... The meaning of FIDUS ACHATES is faithful Achates : trusty friend.

  3. Fidus Achates definition: a faithful friend or companion. See examples of FIDUS ACHATES used in a sentence.

  4. 2 days ago · fidus Achates in British English. (ˈfaɪdəs əˈkeɪtiːz ) noun. a faithful friend or companion. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Word origin. Latin, literally: faithful Achates, the name of the faithful companion of Aeneas in Virgil's Aeneid.

  5. Achates (Aeneid) Venus appearing to Aeneas and Achates by Donato Creti (turn of the 17/18th c.) In the Aeneid, Achates ( Ancient Greek: Ἀχάτης, "good, faithful Achates", fidus Achates as he was called) was a close friend of Aeneas; [1] his name became a by-word for a very intimate companion. [2]

  6. 6 days ago · a faithful friend or companion. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Word origin. Latin, literally: faithful Achates, the name of the faithful companion of Aeneas in Virgil's Aeneid.

  7. Achates, fidus Latin phrase (‘faithful Achates’) meaning a faithful friend and follower. Achates was a companion of Aeneas, whose loyalty to his friend was so exemplary as to become proverbial. Source for information on Achates, fidus: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable dictionary.

  8. noun. a faithful friend or devoted follower:accompanied by three guides and his fidus Achates, Bruce set out. More example sentences. ‘You see, but you do not observe,’ he tells his dull fidus Achates; how many steps, for example, are there from the hall to the room where they are sitting? This Isaac proved the most faithful of all his ...

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