Word: priam
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Subscriber Walker is Managing Editor of the Albany Sunday Telegram. - ED. * Yes. The Mercury's comment was favorable, as follows: "Buffalo's Touraine, of the good Howie-gay and generous, for all he be a Scot."-ED " *The original Cassandra, legendary daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy, tricked Apollo for a gift of prophecy. In revenge, Apollo ordained that none should believe her. In vain Cassandra prognosticated the ruin of Troy, in vain the death of Agamomnon...
...popularly supposed to be nothing more than a pleasing poetical fabrication, designed primarily to amuse the yokels of Sparta and Macedonia, and--although unwittingly--to provide material for the exercise of ingenuity on the part of countless subsequent generations of Greek classes. The whole train--crafty Ulysses, noble Priam, brave Hector, fair-haired Menelaus, together with the attendant array of angry gods and jealous goddesses, and all the clangor of archaic war, the rumbling of chariots, the crash of spear on shield, and the dominating twang of Apollo's silver bow--was thought to be nothing more than...