English (Autenrieth)
the Achaeans, the chief tribe of Greeks in Thessaly, Messēne, Argos, and Ithaca; mostly as a collective appellation of the Greeks before Troy, Il. 1.2, etc.; epithets, ἀρηίφιλοι, δῖοι, ἑλίκωπες, ἐυκνήμῖδες, κάρη κομόωντες, μεγάθῦμοι, μένεα πνείοντες, χαλκοχίτωνες.
