English

Proper noun

Achæmenes

1. Obsolete form of Achaemenes.
   • 1857, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and J. Sibree, Lectures on the Philosophy of History (edited by Henry G. Bohn), part 1, section 3, chapter I, page 188:

     As Son of Ormuzd we find the name Dshemshid : apparently the same as he whom the Greeks call Achæmenes, whose descendants are called Pishdadians — a race to which Cyrus was reported to belong.