Achaia, A part of Greece, contanining these countries, Attica, Bœotia, Megaris, Aetholia, and Phocis. It hath on the West, Epyre, on the East, the sea Aegeum, on the North Macedonia, on the South the sea Creticum. There is another Achaia, in Pelopounesus, now called Morea, where was the citie of Patras, in which saint Androwe the Apostle was marttyred.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Ăchāia or (in poets) Ăchāĭa (quadrisyl.), ae, f. [*)axai/a]. I.The province of Achaia, in the northern part of the Peloponnesus, on the Gulf of Corinth, earlier called Aegialea (maritime country), Mel. 2, 3, 4; Plin. 4, 5, 6.—Hence, B. In gen. (cf. the Homeric *)axaioi/), for Greece, opposite to Troja: et quot Troja tulit, vetus et quot Achaia formas, Prop. 2, 21, 53; cf. Ov. M. 8, 268; id. Her. 17, 209 al.—II. After the destruction of Corinth by Mummius, B. C. 146, Greece proper became a Rom. prov. under the name of Achaia.— Hence, Ăchāĭăs, ădis, adj., An Achaean or Greek woman, Ov. H. 3, 71.—Ăchāĭ-cus, a, um, adj., Achaean, Grecian.I.Poet., opp. to Trojan: manus, Verg. A. 5, 623: ignis, Hor. C. 1, 15, 35.—II.Belonging to the Roman province Achaia: homines, Cic. Att. 1, 13, 1: negotium, id. Fam. 4, 4, 2: concilium, Liv. 43, 17, 4.—Hence L. Mummius obtained, for the destruction of Corinth and the complete subjugation of Greece, the honorary title of Achaïcus.Vell. 1, 13, 2; Plin. 35, 4, 8, 24; and so as surname of one of his descendants: Mummia Achaica, Suet. Galb. 3.—Ăchāĭs, ĭdis, adj., f.I.Achaean, Grecian: urbes, Ov. M. 5, 306.—II.Subst., = Achaia, Achaia, Greece, Ov. M. 5, 577; 7, 504.— Ăchāĭus, a, um, adj.: Achaean, Grecian (poet. for Achaïcus and Achaeus): castra, Verg. A. 2, 462; so Sil. 14, 5; 15, 306.