Aeacides

American  

[ee-as-i-deez] / iˈæs ɪˌdiz /

noun

Classical Mythology.

Aeacidae plural

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

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Example Sentences

The name of the island was changed to Aegina in honor of the maiden, and her son Aeacus was the grandfather of Achilles, who was called sometimes Aeacides, descendant of Aeacus.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

Aid me, O goddess! while I sing of him, Who shook the Thunderer's throne, and, for his crime, Was doomed to lose his birthright in the skies; The great Aeacides.

From The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius

Three times he cried, and terror fell on these    That heard him; and the Trojans, one and all, Fled from that shouting of Aeacides.

From Helen of Troy by Lang, Andrew

He became in turn the instructor of Peleus, Achilles, and other descendants of Aeacus; hence he is called "Aeacides" — because tutor to the Aeacides, and thus, so to speak, of that "family."

From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing

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

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh