Ἀχαιοί

Ἀχαιοί : the Achaeans, the chief tribe of Greeks in Thessaly, Messēne, Argos, and Ithaca; mostly as a collective appellation of the Greeks before Troy, Il. 1.2, etc.; epithets, ἀρηίφιλοι, δῖοι, ἑλίκωπες, ἐυκνήμῑδες, κάρη κομόωντες, μεγάθῡμοι, μένεα πνείοντες, χαλκοχίτωνες.