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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 (tro'i-lus). In Greek legend, according to a common account, a son of Priam. See Troilus and Cre ida. Troilus and Cre ida (trōʻi-lus and kres'i-dä). 1. A poem by Chaucer, written about 1369. It is a "Filo str a to." There Trojan War. In Greek legend, a war waged for ten years by the confederated Greeks under the lead of Agamemnon, king of Mycense 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 .