Dardan

American  

[dahr-dn] / ˈdɑr dn /

Also Dardanian

adjective

1. Trojan.

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Dardan British  

/ dɑːˈdeɪnɪən, ˈdɑːdən /

noun

1. another name for a Trojan

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Etymology

Origin of Dardan

First recorded in 1600–10

Example Sentences

Into the court She burst her way, then at her passion's height She climbed the pyre and bared the Dardan sword� A gift desired once, for no such need.

From Time Magazine Archive

So now, exulting, with a mingled hum Of truth and falsehood, through the crowd she sped; How one Æneas hath from Ilion come, A Dardan guest, whom Dido deigns to wed.

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax

Come now, and I of Dardan folk will tell the following fame, And what a folk from Italy the world may yet await, Most glorious souls, to bear our name adown the ways of fate.

From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by Morris, William

Nor race divine,       Nor Dardan sire, nor Goddess mother thine!

From The Fourth Book of Virgil's Aeneid and the Ninth Book of Voltaire's Henriad by Virgil

Turnus, and wilt thou bear it now, such labour spent in vain, And give thy folk to Dardan men, the outcasts of the main?

From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by Morris, William