Priam, the old king of Troy during the Trojan War; was the son of Laomedon, who with the help of Apollo and Poseidon built the city; had a large family by his wife Hecuba, Hector, Paris, and Cassandra, the most noted of them; was too old to take part in the war; is said to have fallen by the hand of Pyrrhus on the capture of Troy by the Greeks.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Prévost-Paradol, Lucien Anatole * Priapus