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Definition of: Achilles
(ə·kil′ēz)
In the Iliad, the son of Peleus and Thetis, foremost Greek hero of the Trojan War who killed Hector and was killed by the arrow Paris shot into his right heel, the only vulnerable spot on his body.
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