Achillas

Family: Egyptian · Role: court official · First appears: Pompey

Life events

Septimius, Salvius, and Achillas assassinated Pompey after he sought refuge in Egypt.(Pompey)
- With: Pompey Cornelia Septimius Salvius
- “Septimius first stabbed him from behind with his sword; and after him likewise Salvius and Achillas drew out their swords. He, therefore, taking up his gown with both hands, drew it over his face, and neither saying nor doing anything unworthy of himself, only groaning a little, endured the wounds they gave him, and so ended his life, in the fifty-ninth year of his age, the very next day after the day of his birth.”

enemies with Pompey “Achillas ... made up towards Pompey's galley”
with Pompey (interaction) “after him likewise Salvius and Achillas drew out their swords”
employer: Pothinus “This advice being approved of, they committed the execution of it to Achillas.”
enemies with Caesar “Achillas and Pothinus he put to death”

Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.