fidus Achates
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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
Such was Malartic—the intimate friend, the Pylades, the Euryalus, the "fidus Achates" of Jacquemin Lampourde; who certainly was not handsome—but his mental and moral qualities made up for his little physical disadvantages.
From Captain Fracasse by Théophile Gautier
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 Charles J. (Charles John) Abbey
You are Flemming's intimate friend, his fidus Achates.
From Majorie Daw by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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