Acoetēs

Meaning

1. GreekRomanAn attendant of Bacchus.
   Ille metu vacuus ‘nomen mihi’ dixit ‘Acoetes,2000 translation by A. S. Kline Without fear, he answers ‘My name is Acoetes, and Maeonia is my country, my parents humble ordinary people.’8 CE, Ovidius, Metamorphoses 3.582
2. GreekRomanThe father of Laocoön.
   Sic ait inlacrimans, recipitque ad limina gressum corpus ubi exanimi positum Pallantis Acoetes servabat senior, qui Parrhasio Euandro armiger ante fuit, sed non felicibus aeque2002 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.29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 11.30
3. GreekRomanA Theban character in Statius’s Thebaid.
   Abstulit ex umero dextram Calydonius Agreus Phegeos: illa suum terra tenet improba ferrum et mouet; extimuit sparsa inter tela iacentem1928 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.c. 45 CE – 96 CE, Statius, Thebais 8.444

Declension

Origins

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀκοίτης (Akoítēs).

In the Academy Smith's classical dictionaries