Aeacides

American  

[ee-as-i-deez] / iˈæs ɪˌdiz /

noun

Classical Mythology.

PLURAL

Aeacidae

1. a patronymic for any of the descendants of Aeacus, as Achilles, Peleus, and Telamon.

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Example Sentences

Aeacides, the son of Arymbas II., succeeded Alexander.

From Project Gutenberg

Ah, son of Tydeus, bravest of the Grecian race, that I could not have fallen on the Ilian plains, and gasped out this my life beneath thine hand! where under the spear of Aeacides lies fierce Hector, lies mighty Sarpedon; where Simoïs so often bore beneath his whirling wave shields and helmets and brave bodies of men.'

From Project Gutenberg

At Argos, during the feast of Juno, which happened at the time, he presided at the games, and, joining in the festivities with the multitude of the Greeks assembled there, he celebrated his marriage with Deidamia, daughter of Aeacides, king of the Molossians, and sister of Pyrrhus.

From Project Gutenberg

Alcetas was the son of Tharrhypas, Arybas of Alcetas, and of Arybas and Troas his queen, Aeacides: he married Phthia, the daughter of Menon, the Thessalian, a man of note at the time off the Lamiac war, and of highest command in the confederate army next to Leosthenes.

From Project Gutenberg

To Aeacides were born of Phthia, Deidamia and Troas daughters, and Pyrrhus a son.

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