Hector, King of Priamus his sonne by Hecuba, the most valtaunt of all the Tropans, and the terror of the Greecinns besteging his countrey. For so long as he lined, Troy coulde neuer be taken. In the end he was slaine by Achilles, and by a chariote drawne on the grounde about the walles of the Citie in the sight of his mtserable father and mother. After, his bodte through the great wrath and displeasure of Achilles, for the death of his deare friend Patroclns, was left vnbutied xil. dayes: at length it was graunted to his father to be buried, but so that he paide a greate summe of money for the same.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Hector, ŏris (Hectōris, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 17, 39 = Trag. v. 25 Vahl.; id. ap. Varr. L. L. 10, 70 Müll. = Trag. v. 130 Vahl.; acc. Hectorem, id. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 44, 105 = Trag. v. 129 Vahl.; cf. Varr. L. L. l. l.), m., = *(/ektwr, son of Priam and Hecuba, husband of Andromache, the bravest of the Trojans, slain and dragged three times around Troy by Achilles, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 2; Verg. A. 1, 483; 2, 270; 282; 522; 6, 166; Hor. C. 2, 4, 10; 4, 9, 22; id. Epod. 17, 12; id. S. 1, 7, 12.—II. Deriv. Hectŏrĕus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Hector; in poet. transf., of the Trojans, and, as descended from the latter, of the Romans; Hectorean; Trojan; Roman: conjux, i. e.
Andromache
, Verg. A. 3, 488: hasta,
Hector's
, Ov. M. 12, 67; so, corpus, Verg. A. 2, 543; and, tumulus, id. ib. 3, 304: Mars, i. e.
Hector in battle
, Ov. M. 13, 275: gens, i. e.
Trojan
, Verg. A. 1, 273: amnes, Xanthum et Simoënta, id. ib. 5, 634: socii, id. ib. 5, 190: flammae, Ov. M. 13, 7: opes, Hor. C. 3, 3, 28: spes et fiducia gentis Regulus Hectoreae, i. e.