The ambition of one’s life; the subject for which we would live and die. The allusion, of course, is to that Helen who eloped with Paris, and thus brought about the siege and destruction of Troy.
“For which men all the life they here enjoy
Still fight, as for the Helens of their Troy.”
Lord Brooke: Treatie of Humane Learning.
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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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