Inhabitants of Middlesex and Essex, referred to in Cæsar’s Gallic Wars. This word, converted into Trinovantes, gave rise to the myth that the people referred to came from Troy.
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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.