This guy Achates was the faithful companion of Aeneas who has few speaking parts in Virgil’s Aenead. But like my faithful shadow, Clinton, he is always a faithful companion. Brits, primarily I suspect, use fides Achates as a description of a faithful person or simply as a highfalutin way to say “as always”. BTW it’s a-KAY-tees.
Achates
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