Neʹoptolʹemos or Pyrrhos
. Son of Achilles; called Pyrrhos from his yellow hair, and Neʹoptolʹemos because he was a new solider, or one that came late to the siege of Troy. According to Virgil, it was this young man that slew the aged Priam. On his return home he was murdered by Orestes, at Delphi.
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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.