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
This is our true dwelling place; hence is Dardanus sprung, and lord Iasius, the first source of our race.
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
Dardanus came to Phrygia and built the city of Dardania, which was afterwards the great Troy.
From Villani's Chronicle Being Selections from the First Nine Books of the Croniche Fiorentine of Giovanni Villani by Giovanni Villani
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 Charles Morris
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 Frank Justus Miller
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