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of Rom. Lit. (tr. by Warr), I. 531. Troil (troil), Magnus. The udaler or magnate of Zetland in Scott's novel "The Pirate." His daughters Minna and Brenda are the principal female characters. Troilus (trō'i-lus). In Greek legend, according to a common account, a son of Priam. See Troilus and Cre ida . Troilus and Cre ida (trō'i-lus and kresʻi-dä). 1. A poem by Chaucer, written about 1369. It is a of Boccaccio's "Filo str a to." There are add i version of how hosting of the Gestede Troie" of Benoit de Sainte-Maure (in which the story first appeared as an addition of Sainte-Maure's to the legendary history of Troy ascribed to Dares Phrygius and Dictys Cretensis), or of the Latin version of Sainte-Maure by Guido Colonna. The Lollius to whom Chaucer attributes the story is now thought to be mythical. 2. A play by Dekker and Chettle, acted in 1599.-3. A tragedy by Shakspere, thought to be altered from an older one. It was played at the Globe about 1600, licensed to be printed in 1603 and 1609, and printed in the folio edition of 1623. Troilus and Cre ida, or Truth Found too Late. A play by Dryden, printed in 1678, in which be undertook to "correct" what he "opined was in all probability” one of “Shakspere's first Endeavours on the Stage." Trois Couleurs (trwä kö-ler'), Les. [F., 'The Tricolor.] A popular French political song, written after 1830 by Adolphe Vogel, celebrating the fall of the white flag and the return of the tricolor. Trois Échelles (trwa zá-shel'). [F., 'three' ladders. The executioner of Louis XI. of France. Scott introduces him in “Quentin Durward.” Trois Mousquetaires (trwä mös-ke-tar'), Les. [F., The Three Musketeers.'] A novel by Alex Trojan War. In Greek legend, a war waged for ten years by the confederated Greeks under the lead of Agamemnon, king of Mycenæ and Argolis, against the Trojans and their allies, for the recovery of Helen, wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta or Lacedæmon, who had been carried off by Paris, son of the Trojan king Priam. See Iliad .