Trojan
. 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.”
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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.