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ANTENOR , in See also:

Greek See also:legend, one of the wisest of the Trojan elders and counsellors. He advised his See also:fellow-townsmen to send See also:Helen back to her See also:husband, and showed himself not unfriendly to the Greeks and an See also:advocate of See also:peace. In the later See also:story, according to Dares and Dictys, he was said to have treacherously opened the See also:gates of See also:Troy to the enemy; in return for which, at the See also:general See also:sack of the See also:city, his See also:house, distinguished by a See also:panther's skin at the See also:door, was spared by the victors. Afterwards, according to various versions of the legend, he either rebuilt a city on the' site of Troy, or settled at See also:Cyrene, or became the founder of See also:Patavium. See also:Homer, Iliad, iii. 148, vii. 347; See also:Horace, Epp. i. 2. 9; See also:Livy i. i ; See also:Pindar, Pythia, v. 83 ; See also:Virgil, Aen. i. 242.

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