fidus Achates
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of fidus Achates
Latin, literally: faithful Achates, the name of the faithful companion of Aeneas in Virgil's Aeneid
Example Sentences
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No. 2 man on the board is the President's fidus Achates, Harry Hopkins.
From Time Magazine Archive
He has long been the fidus Achates of the Hampden Company.
From Time Magazine Archive
Deschenaux, his fidus Achates, was a cobbler's son, whom experience alone had educated and fate and unscrupulousness had advanced.
From Old Quebec The Fortress of New France by Bryan, Claude Glennon
Such was Malartic—the intimate friend, the Pylades, the Euryalus, the "fidus Achates" of Jacquemin Lampourde; who certainly was not handsome—but his mental and moral qualities made up for his little physical disadvantages.
From Captain Fracasse by Gautier, Théophile
She layed all her snares for Dr Lewis, who is the fidus Achates of my uncle.
From The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Smollett, T. (Tobias)
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