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Trojan

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He is a regular Trojan. A fine fellow, with good courage and plenty of spirit; what the French call a brace homme. The Trojans in Homer’s Iliad and Virgil’s Æneid are described as truthful, brave, patriotic, and confiding.

“There they say right, and like true Trojans.”


Butler: Hudibras, i. 1.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Triumph
Trivet
Trivia
Trivial
Trivium
Troehilus (The)
Troglodytes
Troilus
Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare)
Trois pour Cent
Trojan
Trojan War (The)
Trolls
Trolly
Trompée
Troness, Tronis, or Trophy Money, or Trophy Tax
Troopers
Troops of the Line
Trophonios (Greek)
Troubadours
Trouble