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ACHATE, ACHATES was the faithful companion who went with Aeneas from burning Troy to Italy (Aeneid I.188). Virgil generally refers to him as fidus Achates, "faithful Achates."

Chaucer calls Achates a knight, HF I.226; Achates is a knight, LGW 964. Eneas's companions are called chevaliers and barons throughout the twelfth-century Eneas. Achates appears in the first half of the Legend of Dido, LGW 964-1136. [Eneas]

Achate occurs once in final rhyming position, HF I.226; Achates occurs medially, LGW 976, 1136, and in final rhyming position, LGW 964, 1023, 1129.

Eneas, ed. J.-J. Salverda de Grave; Virgil, Aeneid, ed. and trans. H.R. Fairclough, I: 254-255.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
Published by Garland Publishing, Inc., New York and London.
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