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    "verified_text": "hector, in greek mythology, son of priam and hecuba, the husband of andromache. like paris and other trojans, he had an oriental name, darius. in homer he is represented as an ideal warrior, the champion of the trojans and the mainstay of the city. his character, is drawn in most favourable colours as a good son, a loving husband and father, and a trusty friend. his leave-taking of andromache in the sixth book of the _iliad_, and his departure to meet achilles for the last time, are most touchingly described. he is an especial favourite of apollo; and later poets even describe him as son of that god. his chief exploits during the war were his defence of the wounded sarpedon, his fight with ajax, son of telamon (his particular enemy), and the storming of the greek ramparts. when achilles, enraged with agamemnon, deserted the greeks, hector drove them back to their ships, which he almost succeeded in burning. patroclus, the friend of achilles, who came to the help of the greeks, was slain by hector with the help of apollo. then achilles, to revenge his friend's death, returned to the war, slew hector, dragged his body behind his chariot to the camp, and afterwards round the tomb of patroclus. aphrodite and apollo preserved it from corruption and mutilation. priam, guarded by hermes, went to achilles and prevailed on him to give back the body, which was buried with great honour. hector was afterwards worshipped in the troad by the boeotian tribe gephyraei, who offered sacrifices at his grave. hecuba (gr. [greek: hekabe]), wife of priam, daughter of the phrygian king dymas (or of cisseus, or of the river-god sangarius). according to homer she was the mother of nineteen of priam's fifty sons. when troy was captured and priam slain, she was made prisoner by the greeks. her fate is told in various ways, most of which connect her with the promontory cynossema, on the thracian shore of the hellespont. according to euripides (in the _hecuba_), her youngest son polydorus had been placed during the siege of troy under the care of polymestor, king of thrace. when the greeks reached the thracian chersonese on their way home hecuba discovered that her son had been murdered, and in revenge put out the eyes of polymestor and murdered his two sons. she was acquitted by agamemnon; but, as polymestor foretold, she was turned into a dog, and her grave became a mark for ships (ovid, _metam._ xiii. 399-575; juvenal x. 271 and mayor's note). according to another story, she fell to the lot of odysseus, as a slave, and in despair threw herself into the hellespont; or, she used such insulting language towards her captors that they put her to death (dictys cretensis v. 13. 16). it is obvious from the tales of hecuba's transformation and death that she is a form of some goddess to whom dogs were sacred; and the analogy with scylla is striking.",
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