Achæmenids, the name given to Cyrus (q.v.) and his successors, who ruled Persia till the overthrow of the monarchy by Alexander the Great; so called from a (mythical) ancestor Hakhâmanis (Gr. Achæmenes). See PERSIA.
Achæmenids
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 34
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