Priam

[prahy-uhm]

Pri·am

[prahy-uhm]
noun Classical Mythology.
1.
a king of Troy, the son of Laomedon, husband of Hecuba, and father of Paris, Cassandra, Hector, Polyxena, and many others. He was killed during the capture of Troy.
2.
the grandson of King Priam.
Also, Pri·a·mus [prahy-uh-muhs] .
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Priam is always a great word to know.
So is lotus-eater. Does it mean:
the three goddesses of destiny, known to the Greeks as the Moerae and to the Romans as the Parcae
a member of a people whom Odysseus found existing in a state of languorous forgetfulness induced by their eating of the fruit of the legendary lotus
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Priam (ˈpraɪəm)
 
n
Greek myth the last king of Troy, killed at its fall. He was father by Hecuba of Hector, Paris, and Cassandra

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Priam [(preye-uhm)]

The king of Troy and father of Hector and Paris. The Greeks killed him at the end of the Trojan War when they sacked the city.

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