Dēĭphŏbus

, a son of Priam and Hecuba, who, after the death of his brother Paris, married Helen. His wife unworthily betrayed him, and introduced into his chamber her old husband Menelaus, to whom she wished to reconcile herself. He was shamefully mutilated and killed by Menelaus. He had highly distinguished himself during the war, especially in his two combats with Merion, and in that in which he slew Ascalaphus son of Mars. Virgil , Æneid , bk. 6 , li. 495 .— Homer , Iliad , bk. 13 .――A son of Hippolytus, who purified Hercules after the murder of Iphitus. Apollo dor us , bk. 2 , ch. 6 .