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PANDARUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 675 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PANDARUS , in See also:

Greek See also:legend, son of See also:Lycaon, a Lycian, one of the heroes of the Trojan See also:war. He is not an important figure in See also:Homer. He breaks the truce between the Trojans and the Greeks by treacherously wounding See also:Menelaus with an arrow, and finally he is slain by See also:Diomedes (Homer, Iliad, ii. 827, iv. 88, v. 290). In See also:medieval See also:romance he became a prominent figure in the See also:tale of See also:Troilus and Cressida. He encouraged the amour between the Trojan See also:prince and his niece Cressida; and the word " pander " has passed into See also:modern See also:language as the See also:common See also:title of a lovers' go-between in the worst sense.

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