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Dardanus

American  
[dahr-dn-uhs] / ˈdɑr dn əs /

noun

Classical Mythology.
  1. the ancestor of the Trojans.


Dardanus British  
/ ˈdɑːdənəs /

noun

  1. classical myth the son of Zeus and Electra who founded the royal house of Troy

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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

According to our opponent's opinion, Laomedon was noble, and Dardanus ignoble during life.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II. by Lodge, Henry Cabot

But Troy was safe from capture while the Palladium, a statue which Jupiter himself had given to Dardanus, the ancestor of the Trojans, remained in the citadel of that city.

From Historic Tales, vol 10 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles

But in the third �neid Virgil says that Dardanus drew his-219- origin from Europe.

From Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia. by Church, R. W. (Richard William)

Hence sprung Dardanus: hither Apollo recalls us, and pushes us on with imperious orders to Tyrrhenian Tiber and the holy pools of Numicus' spring.

From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

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