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 Hecatomb.Hector (A). 
Eldest son of Priam, the noblest and most magnanimous of all the chieftains in Homer’s Iliad (a Greek epic). After holding out for ten years, he was slain by Achilles, who lashed him to his chariot, and dragged the dead body in triumph thrice round the walls of Troy. The Iliad concludes with the funeral obsequies of Hector and Patroc’los.   1
   The Hector of Germany. Joachim II., Elector of Brandenburg (1514–1571).   2
   You wear Hector’s cloak. You are paid off for trying to deceive another. You are paid in your own coin. When Thomas Percy, Earl of Northumberland, in 1569, was routed, he hid himself in the House of Hector Armstrong, of Harlaw. This villain betrayed him for the reward offered, but never after did anything go well with him; he went down, down, down, till at last he died a beggar in rags on the roadside.   3

 Hecatomb.Hector (A). 

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