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Achivus

Achivus, Achaean, Grecian

Frieze-Dennison Vergil

Achīvus, a, um: Achaean; Greek, 1.488; pl. subst., Achīvī, ōrum or um, the Greeks, 2.102.
Ăchīvus, a, um (gen. plur. Achivom, Verg. A. 11, 266), adj. [fr. Achaeus, with the Digamma, Achaefos, Achifus, Achivus],
  • Achaean, Grecian (v. Achaia): tellus, Ov. Pont. 1, 4, 33: castra, id. H. 1, 21.
  • —Hence, Ăchīvi, the Greeks, Cic. Div. 1, 14: quidquid delirant reges plectuntur Achivi, whatever wrongs the (Grecian) kings are guilty of (before Troy) their subjects must suffer for; but it soon became a general proverb: whatever errors the great commit, the people must atone for, Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 14.

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