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
Charles Wesley was by no means the mere fidus Achates, or man Friday, of his brother John.
From The English Church in the Eighteenth Century by Abbey, Charles J. (Charles John)
We saw him prospecting up and down the train, hunting for a seat, followed by his fidus Achates.
From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Unstable as water he could not excel nor endure, however, even in dalliance; nor persevere even when adopted as the fidus Achates of a good and beautiful woman—the poor little weather-cock.
From Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life by Wren, Percival Christopher
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