Troilus

• a son of Priam, slain by Achilles, Verg. A. 1, 474; Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 30 (954); 4, 9, 36 (960); Hor. C. 2, 9, 16; Dict. Cret. 4, 9.

(Τρωίλος), a son of Priam and Hecabe (Hom. Il. 24.257), or according to others a son of Apollo. (Apollod. 3.12.5.) He fell by the hands of Achilles (Verg. A. 1.474; Hor. Carm. 2.9.16; Cic. Tusc. 1.39); others relate that Achilles ordered Troilus who was made prisoner to be strangled (Dict. Cret. 4.9), or that Troilus, when fleeing from Achilles, ran into the temple of the Thymbraean Apollo, where Achilles slew him on the same spot where he himself was afterwards killed. (Tzetz. ad Lyc. 307.) [L.S]

(Τρώϊλος), a sophist of some distinction, who taught at Constantinople, under Arcadius and Honorius, at the beginning of the fifth century of our era, was a native of Side in Pamphylia. Among his disciples were Eusebius Scholasticus, Ablabius. a Novatian bishop of Nicaea, and Silvanus, bishop of Philippopolis. Works λόγοι πολιτικοί

Troilus wrote, according to Suidas, λόγοι πολιτικοί, and seven books of letters. (Socrat. H. E. 6.6, 7.1, 27; Suid. s.v. Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. vi. p. 140; Clinton, Fast. Rom. s. aa. 401, 408.) Epigram

There is an epigram in the Greek Anthology on the athlete Lyron, ascribed to a grammarian Troilus, whom Schneider and Jacobs identify with the Sophist; though Fabricius supposes the two persons to be different, without stating his reason. Further Information

Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. i. p. 498; Brunck, Anal. vol. ii. p. 450; Jacobs, Anth. Graec. vol. iii. p. 155, vol. xiii. p. 962. [P.S]

(Τρωΐλος). The son of Priam and Hecuba, or, according to others, son of Apollo. He fell by the hands of Achilles.