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Pri⋅am

  [prahy-uhm]
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–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 [(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.

The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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