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Achate [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. An agate.

2. Purchase; bargaining.

3. Provisions. Same as Cates.

Achates Encyclopedia Britannica

ACHATES, the faithful friend and companion of Aeneas, celebrated in Virgil's Aenid as fidus Achates.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 1, p. 94
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