Achillas
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 5 anchored passages
Achillas the Egyptian
in the texts
Caesar
The Egyptian general who plots against Caesar with Potheinus and, escaping, raises a war against him.
Then, as everybody was feasting to celebrate the reconciliation, a slave of Caesar’s, his barber, who left nothing unscrutinized, owing to a timidity in which he had no equal, but kept his ears open and was here, there, and everywhere, perceived that Achillas the general and Potheinus the eunuch were hatching a plot against Caesar.
Achillas, however, escaped to his camp, and raised about Caesar a war grievous and difficult for one who was defending himself with so few followers against so large a city and army.
Pompey
An Egyptian commander entrusted with carrying out Pompey's murder.
But at this point, while Pompey was clasping the hand of Philip that he might rise to his feet more easily, Septimius, from behind, ran him through the body with his sword, then Salvius next, and then Achillas, drew their daggers and stabbed him.
Having determined upon this plan, they entrusted the execution of it to Achillas.
It was certainly a dreadful thing that the fate of Pompey the Great was to be decided by Potheinus the eunuch, and Theodotus of Chios, who was a hired teacher of rhetoric, and Achillas the Egyptian;