fidus Achates
Example Sentences
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He has long been the fidus Achates of the Hampden Company.
From Time Magazine Archive
No. 2 man on the board is the President's fidus Achates, Harry Hopkins.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dave, you are my "fidus Achates," my other self, my chum, or I would not say a word to you of this.
From Between the Dark and the Daylight by Marsh, Richard
Deschenaux, his fidus Achates, was a cobbler's son, whom experience alone had educated and fate and unscrupulousness had advanced.
From Old Quebec The Fortress of New France by Bryan, Claude Glennon
Charles Wesley was by no means the mere fidus Achates, or man Friday, of his brother John.
From The English Church in the Eighteenth Century by Abbey, Charles J. (Charles John)
