Hector

, son of king Priam and Hecuba, was the most valiant of all the Trojan chiefs that fought against the Greeks. He married And rom ache the daughter of Eetion, by whom he had Astyanax. He was appointed captain of all the Trojan forces, when Troy was besieged by the Greeks; and the valour with which he behaved, showed how well qualified he was to discharge that important office. He engaged with the bravest of the Greeks, and according to Hyginus, no le than 31 of the most valiant of the enemy perished by his hand. When Achilles had driven back the Trojans towards the city, Hector, too great to fly, waited the approach of his enemy near the Scean gates, though his father and mother, with tears in their eyes, blamed his rashne , and entreated him to retire. The sight of Achilles terrified him, and he fled before him in the plain. The Greek pursued, and Hector was killed, and his body was dragged in cruel triumph by the conqueror round the tomb of Patroclus, whom Hector had killed. The body, after it had received the gro est of insults, was ransomed by old Priam, and the Trojans obtained from the Greeks a truce of some days to pay the last offices to the greatest of their leaders. The The bans boasted in the age of the geographer Pausanias, that they had the ashes of Hector preserved in an urn, by order of an oracle; which promised them undisturbed felicity if they were in po e ion of that hero’s remains. The epithet of Hectoreus is applied by the poets to the Trojans, as best expre ive of valour and intrepidity. Homer , Iliad , bk. 1 , . — Virgil , Æneid , bk. 1 , . — Ovid , Metamorphoses , bks. 12 & 13.— Dictys Cretensis. — Dares Phrygius. — Hyginus , fables 90 & 112.— Pausanias , bk. 3 & bk. 9 , ch. 18 .— Quintus Smyrnæus , bks. 1 & 3.――A son of Parmenio drowned in the Nile. Alexander honoured his remains with a magnificent funeral. Curtius , bk. 4 , ch. 8 ; bk. 6 , ch. 9 .