Achæmenes

See also: Achaemenes

English

Proper noun

Achæmenes

  1. Obsolete form of Achaemenes.
    • 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:
      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.
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