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For the Greek writer, see Achilles Tatius.

Achilles Statius
Born	12 June 1524  Vidigueira, Kingdom of Portugal
Died	17 September 1581  (aged 57) Rome, Papal States
Resting place	Santa Maria in Vallicella
Education	University of Évora, University of Coimbra, Old University of Leuven, University of Paris
Occupation	Translator, writer, philologist

Achilles Statius (or Aquiles Estaço) (12 June 1524, Vidigueira – 17 September 1581) was a Portuguese humanist and writer, since 1555 living in Rome, where he was a secretary of the pope. Achilles Statius is now mostly known from his extensive Latin commentary to Catullus, published in 1566.

Works

• Estaço, Aquiles (1551). Achillis Statii Lusitani Commentarii in Librum Ciceronis de Fato (in Latin). Lovanii: ex officina Seruatij Sasseni.
• Estaço, Aquiles (1553). Achillis Statij... In Q. Horatij Flacci poeticam commentarij (in Latin). Antverpiae: apud Martinum Nutium.
• (Santo), Pachomius Santo (1575). S. Pachomii ... Regula e Syriaco Graecoq. in Latinum a B. Hieronymo conuersa. Item B. Anselmi de vita aeterna sermo. Vtrumq. numquam antea, nunc autem ab Achille Statio Lusitano primum editum (in Latin). Romae: apud haeredes Antonij Bladij impressores camerales.
• Beati Anastasi monachi. montis Sinai Oratio. de sacra. synaxi ac de eo, quod est, ne quem iudicemus, nec iniuriarium memores esse velimus. Achille Statio interprete (in Latin). Romae: apud heredes Antonij Bladij impressores camerales. 1579.
• Estaço, Aquiles (1580). Sancti patris nostri Iohannis archiepisc. Constantinopolitani cognomento Chrysostomi Homilia in Seraphim. Achille Statio Lusitano interprete (in Latin). Romae: apud haeredes Antonij Bladij Impressores Camerales.
• Estaço, Aquiles (1581). Achillis Statii Lusitani De redittib. ecclesiasticis qui beneficiis et pensionib. continentur. Commentarioli II (in Latin). Romae: apud heredes Antonij Bladij impressores camerales.