Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—D

Deiphobus

(4 syl.). One of the sons of Priam, and, next to Hector, the bravest and boldest of all the Trojans. On the death of his brother Paris, he married Helen; but Helen betrayed him to her first husband, Menelaos, who slew him. (Homer's Iliad and Virgil's Æncid.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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