Acoetes

• Acœtes (archaic)

Borrowed from Latin Acoetēs.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈsiːtiːz/

Acoetes

1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) One of several mythological characters.
   1. An attendant of Bacchus.
   2. The father of Laocoön.
   3. A Theban character in Statius’s Thebaid.

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• acetose, coatees

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀκοίτης (Akoítēs).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈkoe̯.teːs/, [äˈkoe̯t̪eːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈt͡ʃe.tes/, [äˈt͡ʃɛːt̪es]

Acoetēs m sg (genitive Acoetae); first declension

1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) One of several mythological characters.
   1. An attendant of Bacchus.
      • 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.582:

        Ille metu vacuus ‘nomen mihi’ dixit ‘Acoetes,
        patria Maeonia est, humili de plebe parentes.’

        • 2000 translation by A. S. Kline

          Without fear, he answers ‘My name is Acoetes, and Maeonia is my country, my parents humble ordinary people.’

   2. The father of Laocoön.
      • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 11.30:

        Sic ait inlacrimans, recipitque ad limina gressum
        corpus ubi exanimi positum Pallantis Acoetes
        servabat senior, qui Parrhasio Euandro
        armiger ante fuit, sed non felicibus aeque
        tum comes auspiciis caro datus ibat alumno.

        • 2002 translation by A. S. Kline

          So he spoke, weeping, and retraced his steps to the threshold
          where Pallas’s lifeless corpse was laid, watched
          by old Acoetes, who before had been armour-bearer
          to Arcadian Evander, but then, under less happy auspices,
          set out as the chosen guardian for his dear foster-child.

   3. A Theban character in Statius’s Thebaid.
      • c. 45 CE – 96 CE, Statius, Thebais 8.444:

        Abstulit ex umero dextram Calydonius Agreus
        Phegeos: illa suum terra tenet improba ferrum
        et mouet; extimuit sparsa inter tela iacentem
        praegrediens truncamque tamen percussit Acoetes.

        • 1928 translation by J. H. Mozley

          Calydonian Agreus cut the right arm of Phegeus from off its shoulder: on the ground it holds the sword in unyielding grip and shakes it: Acoetes advancing feared it as it lay amid the scattered weapons, and struck at it, severed though it was.

First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ēs), singular only.

• Acœtēs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 23/2.