Dardanus
Americannoun
noun
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Another, Electra, was the mother of Dardanus, the founder of the Trojan race.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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What? did he repent of Mnesarchus or Dardanus, who at that time were the chiefs of the Stoics at Athens?
From The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero by Yonge, Charles Duke
That is our true home: thence sprung Dardanus and father Iasius, the first founder of our line.
From Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman by Miller, Frank Justus
This is our very due abode: thence Dardanus outbroke, Iasius our father thence, beginner of our folk.
From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by Morris, William
Virdung, Luscinius and Praetorius seem to have had access to a MS. of the Dardanus letter now lost, and to have reproduced the drawings without understanding them.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
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