Trojan Sentence Examples

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  • According to the legend it was founded by the Trojan Antenor.

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  • The western pediment, which is more conservative in type, represents the earlier expedition of Heracles and Telamon against Troy; the eastern, which is bolder and more advanced, probably refers to episodes in the Trojan war.

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  • According to the story, Evander left the Arcadian town of Pallantion about sixty years before the Trojan War and founded Pallanteum or Palatium on the hill afterwards called the Palatine.

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  • Many cities in Greece and Italy claimed to possess the genuine Trojan Palladium.

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  • In command of the Greek contingent from Phylace in Thessaly, he was the first to spring ashore on Trojan soil, although he knew it meant instant death.

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  • Paphos was believed to have been founded either by the Arcadian Agapenor, returning from the Trojan War (c. 1180 B.C.), or by his reputed contemporary Cinyras, whose clan retained royal privileges down to the Ptolemaic conquest of Cyprus in 295 B.C., and held the Paphian priesthood till the Roman occupation in 58 B.C. The town certainly dates back to the close of the Mycenaean Bronze age, and had a king Eteandros among the allies of Assur-bani-pal of Assyria in 668 B.C.'

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  • According to him, the myths arose from definite local (especially atmospheric and aquatic) phenomena, and represented the annually recurring processes of nature as the acts of gods and heroes; thus, in Achill (1853), the Trojan War is the winter conflict of the elements in that district.

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  • Most of these were free translations from the Greek, his favourite subjects being the legends of the Trojan war and the house of Pelops.

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  • The legend related by Herodotus and Strabo, which ascribed the origin of the Pamphylians to a colony led into their country by Amphilochus and Calchas after the Trojan War, is merely a characteristic myth.

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  • Here the Trojan empire begins.

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  • Pretty Little Liars follows the stories of Aria Montgomery (Lucy Hale), Hanna Marin (Ashley Benson), Emily Fields (Shay Mitchell) and Spencer Hastings (Trojan Bellisario) who were best friends with Alison DiLaurentis (Sashe Pieterse).

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  • He speaks in places as if his object was to record the wars between the Greeks and the barbarians; but as he omits the Trojan war, in which he fully believes, the expedition of the Teucrians and Dlysians against Thrace and Thessaly, the wars connected with the Ionian colonization of Asia Minor and others, it is evident that he does not really aim at embracing in his narrative all the wars between Greeks and barbarians with which he was acquainted.

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  • The slaying of Patroclus by the Trojan hero Hector roused Achilles from his indifference; eager to avenge his beloved comrade, he sallied forth, equipped with new armour fashioned by Hephaestus, slew Hector, and, after dragging his body round the walls of Troy, restored it to the aged King Priam at his earnest entreaty.

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  • He encouraged the amour between the Trojan prince and his niece Cressida; and the word "pander" has passed into modern language as the common title of a lovers' go-between in the worst sense.

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  • He is said to have flourished "even before the Trojan times," "when Semiramis was queen of the Assyrians."

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  • She was the most beautiful woman in Greece, and indirectly the cause of the Trojan war.

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  • He reigned over Crete and the islands of the Aegean three generations before the Trojan War.

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  • From Livy it would appear that tradition recognized two sons of Aeneas called by this name, the one the son of his Trojan, the other of his Latin wife.

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  • Its fame was due to the tradition that it was the starting-place of the Greek fleet before the Trojan War, the scene of the sacrifice of Iphigenia.

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  • After the departure of Agamemnon to the Trojan war, Aegisthus seduced his wife Clytaemnestra (more correctly Clytaemestra) and with her assistance slew him on his return.

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  • Little is known of him before the Trojan War, which broke out when he was advanced in years.

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  • This history comprised a first part (now lost), which was merely a translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regumBritanniae, preceded by a history of the Trojan War, and a second part which carries us as far as the death of William Rufus.

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  • They contain 595+3118 =3713 lines and are concerned entirely with "Trojan" matters.

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  • It is a popular disquisition on the heroes of the Trojan War in the form of a conversation between a Thracian vine-dresser on the shore of the Hellespont and a Phoenician merchant who derives his knowledge from the hero Protesilaus, Palamedes is exalted at the expense of Odysseus, and Homer's unfairness to him is attacked.

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  • Soon after his marriage to Penelope he was summoned to the Trojan war.

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  • As a descendant of Zeus and famous for his beauty, he was one of the suitors of Helen; hence, after her abduction by Paris, he took part in the Trojan War, in which he distinguished himself by his bravery.

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  • It is in the form of a prophecy uttered by Cassandra, and relates the later fortunes of Troy and of the Greek and Trojan heroes.

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  • The Elymi were a people of uncertain origin, but they claimed a mixed descent, partly Trojan, partly Greek.

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  • In the Homeric poems (1000 B.C.) the Achaeans are the master race in Greece; they are represented both in Homer and in all later traditions as having come into Greece about three generations before the Trojan war (1184 B.C.), i.e.

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  • The heroes and heroines of the Trojan cycle, such as Achilles, Ajax, Telamon, Cassandra, Andromache, were prominent figures in some of the dramas adapted from the Greek.

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  • The Lycian Sarpedon was believed to have taken part in the Trojan war.

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  • Traditionally, Salamis was founded after the Trojan War (c. 1180 B.C.) by Teucer from Salamis, the island off Attica, but there was an important Mycenaean colony somewhat earlier.

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  • During the Trojan War her husband was slain by Achilles, and after the capture of the city her son Astyanax (or Scamandrius) was hurled from the battlements (Eurip. Troades, 7 20).

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  • Apart from these Trojan tales, Neoptolemus is a prominent figure in the legends of Epirus and of Delphi.

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  • The manifold affections of sense are not simply aggregated in the individual, like the heroes in the Trojan horse.

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  • The song is on a subject taken from the Trojan war, at some point chosen by the singer himself, or by his hearers.

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  • As this is expressly said of the Carians, and of the Trojan allies who were " summoned from afar," the contrary rather is implied regarding Troy itself.

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  • In the Trojan cycle alone we know of the two epics of Arctinus, the Little Iliad of Lesches, the Cypria, the Nostoi.

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  • Much, however, is to be gathered from the arguments of the Trojan part of the Epic Cycle (preserved in the Codex Venetus of the Iliad, a full discussion of which will be found in the Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1884, pp. 1-40).

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  • The later poets sought to complete the story of the Trojan war by supplying the parts which did not fall within the Iliad and Odyssey - the so-called ante-homerica and post-homerica.

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  • In the later part of the same series of discussions (1837), and in his chief work (Die Sagenpoesie der Griechen, 1852), he investigated the structure of the Homeric poems, and their relation to the other epics of the Trojan cycle.

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  • Feeling the difficulty of supposing that all the ancient minstrels sang of the " wrath of Achilles " or the " return of Ulysses " (leaving out even the capture of Troy itself), he was led to assume that two poems of no great compass dealing with these two themes became so famous at an early period as to throw other parts of the Trojan story into the background, and were then enlarged by successive generations of rhapsodists.

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  • Moreover, these marvels - which in their original form are doubtless as old as anything in the Iliad, since in fact they are part of the vast stock of popular tales (Mdrehen) diffused all over the world - are mixed up in the Odyssey with the heroes of the Trojan war.

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  • Grimm has pointed out that the behaviour of Ulysses in that story is senseless and foolhardy, utterly beneath the wise and much-enduring Ulysses of the Trojan war.

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  • The reason is simple; he is not the Ulysses of the Trojan war, but a being of the same world as Polyphemus himself - the world of giants and ogres.

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  • Again, the Trojan legend has itself received some extension between the time of the Iliad and that of the Odyssey.

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  • It was first invented, he believes, before the Trojan war, by a Sidonian thinker named Moschus or Mochus, who is identical with the Moses of the Old Testament.

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  • The settlements at Paphos and Salamis, and probably at Curium, were believed to date from the period of the Trojan War, i.e.

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  • In the later legends of the Trojan War, Eris, lot having been invited to the marriage festival of Peleus and Thetis, flings a golden apple (the "apple of discord") among the guests, to be given to the most beautiful.

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  • On the eve of sailing from Aulis he attempted to offer a sacrifice, as Agamemnon had done before the Trojan expedition, but the Thebans intervened to prevent it; an insult for which he never forgave them.

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  • According to the Homeric story he was absent from Mycenae when his father returned from the Trojan War and was murdered by Aegisthus.

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  • His wile was wickeder than the wile of the Trojan horse, than the wile of Althaea or of Scylla.

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  • Here you find articles in the encyclopedia on topics related to the Trojan War and the travels of Odysseus.

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  • He was a Lycian prince who, along with his cousin Sarpedon, assisted Priam in the Trojan War.

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  • For she had been also in that Helen who was the cause of the Trojan War.

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  • Eighty years after the Trojan War, according to the traditional chronology, the Dorian migration took place.

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  • The stroke of Ravaillacs knife caused a timely descent of the curtain upon this new and tragi-comic Trojan War.

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  • The Mysians appear in the list of the Trojan allies in Homer and are represented as settled in the Calms valley at the coming of Telephus to Pergamum; but nothing else is known of their early history.

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  • In accordance with this view the "Ionic migration," as it was called by later chronologers, was dated by them one hundred and forty years after the Trojan war, or sixty years after the return of the Heraclidae into the Peloponnese.

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  • It was believed to have been founded after the Trojan War (c. 1180) by the Attic hero Acamas; but no remains have been found in this district earlier than the Early Iron Age (c. moo-Soo).

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  • We are the unsinkable aircraft carrier, and the Trojan horse in Europe.

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  • Trojan horse programs can allow hackers to take remote control of PCs.

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  • Such systems could be targeted through unauthorized intrusions, DDoS attacks, worms, Trojan horse programs, or malicious insiders.

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  • In which case, the second book in this very occasional series is Homer's epic poem of the Trojan War, The Iliad.

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  • Trojan horse for ensuring Blairite policy in perpetuity.

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  • Trojan programs, concentrating on detection of unusual open ports.

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  • You sing whatever immortal Homer left unsung, so the Trojan War won't lack the final touch.

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  • Padua claims to be the oldest city in north Italy; the inhabitants pretend to a fabulous descent from the Trojan Antenor, whose relics they recognized in a large stone sarcophagus exhumed in the year 1274.

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  • The sequel was the rape of Helen and the Trojan War.

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  • The genealogy of Locrine, king of Britain, is traced back to Noah, through Aeneas, and the chronicler relates the incidents of the Trojan war as told by Dares the Phrygian.

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  • The legends represent the Latins of the historical period as a fusion of different races, Ligures, Veneti and Siculi among them; the story of the alliance of the Trojan settler Aeneas with the daughter of Latinus, king of the aborigines, and the consequent enmity of the Rutulian prince Turnus, well known to readers of Virgil, is thoroughly typical of the reflection of these distant ethnical phenomena in the surviving traditions.

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  • For Padua claimed, like Rome, a Trojan origin, and Livy is careful to place its founder Antenor side by side with Aeneas.

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  • Some believe this call to be a trojan horse for ensuring Blairite policy in perpetuity.

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  • Chapter twelve discusses trojan programs, concentrating on detection of unusual open ports.

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  • You sing whatever immortal Homer left unsung, so the Trojan War wo n't lack the final touch.

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  • You know about computer viruses of course, and you have probably heard about the possibility of Trojan horses and other unwanted programs on your PDA or mobile phone.

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  • Symantec, the anti-virus guru, has identified an evil new Trojan horse that runs on the PSP.

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  • Most PSP users simply plug games in and play them the way the developers intended -- these people do not have to worry about this Trojan horse.

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  • Many of the websites where such resources are offered can also be filled with malware, viruses, Trojan horses, and other malicious content.

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  • While most sites are virus-free, it is a smart precaution to protect your computer from a virus or Trojan horse.

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  • Trojan often offers samples, as do some condom specialty stores.

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  • Fitting the Roman Forum theme of Caesar's Palace, the first thing visitors to the Las Vegas location see is a 47-foot tall Trojan Horse.

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  • Homer's "Iliad" tells the story of how their sister, Helen, launched a thousand ships during the Trojan War with her beauty.

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  • What this flaw allows is malicious installations of a Trojan horse or spyware on your system without independent of operator action.

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  • In addition, Traveler, a white horse with a Trojan warrior astride, is the team's mascot and makes an appearance at every home football game.

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  • These dedicated individuals are comprised of males and females with a goal of making the Trojan fans as loud as possible to intimidate their opponents and create an atmosphere of support for Trojan Warriors.

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  • While the Spirit squad works with the Trojan Marching Band and the Song Girls, this is mostly a non-stunting team.

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  • Traveler, a white horse that is ridden by a fully decked out Trojan warrior at all home games, has been a part of USC tradition since 1961.

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  • He rides around the stadium after every Trojan score.

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  • The clash between the two societies and Stavia's growing understanding of the nature of the benevolent dictatorship run by her mother is cast in relief by the women's ritualizing of Euripides' classic play, The Trojan Women.

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  • In the original series, the Cylons used a Trojan Horse strategy to ambush the Colonial military.

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  • The use of the Trojan Horse mixed engineering with ingenuity.

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  • Getting a Trojan virus on Facebook is becoming more and more common as the social networking site continues to gain popularity.

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  • A Trojan virus is a little piece of code that creates a hole in your computer's security system.

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  • Trojan viruses are so named because they appear to be innocent at first.

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  • Facebook is a breeding ground for Trojan viruses because of the interactive nature of the site.

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  • While there's no fool-proof way to know if a link or attachment leads to a virus, there are ways to protect yourself from any Trojan virus on Facebook.

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  • For example, the University of Southern California has a Trojan warrior as its mascot.

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  • He took part in the expedition of the Epigoni against Thebes and in the Trojan War.

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  • One of the suitors of Helen, he accompanied his father to the Trojan War.

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  • She is the patroness and protectress of those heroes who are distinguished for their prudence and caution, and in the Trojan War she sides with the more civilized Greeks.

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  • According to tradition the temple of Minerva, founded by Diomede, contained the Trojan Palladium, and the town struck numerous bronze coins; but in history it is first heard of as on the Roman side in the Samnite Wars (321 B.C.), and in 315 or 314 B.C. a Latin colony was sent here.

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  • A further appendix consisted of Anecdotes, Letters and Rescripts of the emperor Hadrian; fables of Aesop; extracts from Hyginus; a history of the Trojan War, abridged from the Iliad; and a legal fragment, Hepi iXethEpci €wv (De manumissionibus).

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  • Of these the most important are Alexander of Macedon and Charlemagne, while alongside of them Priam and other heroes of the Trojan war appear during the middle ages in strangely altered guise.

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  • He was less productive as a poet than either Ennius or Accius; and we hear of only about twelve of his plays, founded on Greek subjects (among them the Antiope, Teucer, Armorum Judicium, Dulorestes, Chryses, Niptra, &c., most of them on subjects connected with the Trojan cycle), and one praetexta (Paulus) written in connexion with the victory of Lucius Aemilius Paulus at Pydna (168), as the Clastidium of Naevius and the Ambracia of Ennius were written in commemoration of great military successes.

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  • In the Trojan War he takes the side of the Greeks, because he had been cheated of his reward by Laomedon, king of Troy, for whom he had built the walls of the city.

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  • He was concealed, disguised as a woman, in the palace of Lycomedes, king of the island, when his mother wished to keep him back from the Trojan War; he was discovered there by Odysseus, and gladly accompanied him to Troy.

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  • That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he it is that has browsed off all the woods on Walden shore, that Trojan horse, with a thousand men in his belly, introduced by mercenary Greeks!

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