Teucrian
Americanadjective
noun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Teucrian
< Greek Teûkr ( os ) Teucer, first king of Troy
Example Sentences
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Had such wish weighed on thee, Then, also, had it been my part to arm the Teucrian hand, Nor had the Almighty Sire nor Fate forbidden Troy to stand, And Priam might have held it out another ten years yet.
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His fellows take it up with shouts, and dreadful cry on rolls As fast they follow, wondering sore at sluggard Teucrian souls,— That men should shun the battle pitched, nor dare the weapon-game, But hug their walls.
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Say, Muse, what God from Teucrian folk such sore destruction turned?
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Make no great haste, O Teucrian men, these ships of mine to save!
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For me, I fear no Fates: For if the Phrygians boast them still of answering words of God, Enough for Venus and the Fates that Teucrian men have trod The fair Ausonia's fruitful field: and answering fates have I: A wicked folk with edge of sword to root up utterly, For stolen wife: this grief hath grieved others than Atreus' sons, And other folk may run to arms than those Mycenian ones.
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