Troilus

The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | 292 words | Copyright

Troilus a Trojan prince, the son of Priam and Hecuba, killed by Achilles. In medieval legends of the Trojan war he is portrayed as the forsaken lover of Cressida.
true as Troilus completely devoted; with allusion to Troilus's speech to Cressida in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida (1602).

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